Gaza to Donbas: What is About to Transpire as Modern Militaries Enter Occupied Cities?

West Point’s John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, contrasts the strategies of Russian troops, occupying Ukrainian cities, to Ukrainian soldiers, liberating Russian-occupied cities, to those that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will soon execute, entering the Gaza Strip to eliminate Hamas.

Even though urban warfare inevitably results in high civilian and military losses, there are key strategies used to keep soldiers and civilians alive – something that Russia and Hamas ignore.

Spencer explains how we will see those next, in Gaza and Donbas, as the world’s wars spread.