![]() ![]() Is “CQB” simply an urban activity, involving entry and room clearance?Ģ. So, to recap: There are two strands here:ġ. Without going into all of it here, the basics are that a higher level entry is preferred, and via another route such as a mouse hole etc. High intensity MOUT/FIBUA involves avoiding breaching and entering via the doors if at all possible. What do we see all the time? “SWAT” style stacking at the breach, which is usually a door. Even the US Army small unit tactics smart book, when discussing urban entry drills, describes it as I originally learned it in the British Army splitting the breach fire team into two man teams and moving to the breach site under cover of ground/fire support before breaching and securing the entry point with two man teams, to be rapidly exploited into the building. ![]() What do I mean by this? Primarily entry drills. I felt that we have been applying techniques that are more suited for “permissive” environments or “semi-permissive” ones, which then carries over to kinetic completely non-permissive battlefields. The other side to this was my observation that due to current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, where a lot of raid type search/capture/clear missions have gone on, including by conventional troops, I felt we may be losing our way a little on what high intensity urban/MOUT is about. Or is it just “close combat”? It appears that CQB has become, in the eyes of the primary CT practitioners, simply urban tactical operations. But you may be doing another type of CQB. Yes, you will not use urban CQB drill in, for instance, the Jungle. Yes, urban CQB involves specific drills for room entry and clearance and all the rest, that is a given, but does that mean that is all CQB is? It is a semantics question, I know. I asked the question of whether CQB is purely synonymous with urban operations, or whether CQB can be “close combat” in other environments. This has spread into the wider army and civilian culture and it seemed to me that a lot of people out there think that warfare is just about room clearing (I exaggerate). Almost 1.5 million people are registered as internally displaced, making Iraq the sixth-largest displacement crisis in the world.The issue, with my raising and questioning of the definition, seemed to be that since 9/11 certain high Tier CT units have been training extensively in urban CQB, as a sub-unit tactical activity of the larger MOUT/FIBUA picture, which has concentrated on a lot of kill/capture missions into urban or structure environments. Medicines are in short supply in most governorates, and water and electricity are lacking, even in the capital Baghdad. According to UNICEF, 30% of children are malnourished, and WFP reports that rates of acute malnutrition have reached 9%. The crisis is devastating for Iraqi civilians, in terms of death, injury, displacement, the denial of fundamental human rights and basic needs and the destruction of homes, vital facilities and infrastructure. Three years after Operation Iraqi Freedom, the US-led invasion of Iraq, was launched in March 2003, the humanitarian situation in Iraq is more critical than ever. 14 NGOs as political actors: a Japanese approach?.13 Lessons from an ecumenical humanitarian consortium: the ACT/Caritas Darfur emergency response operation.12 Emergency interventions in the arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya.11 'It is difficult to escape what is linked to survival': sexual exploitation and food distribution in Burundi.10 Mortality surveys in the Democratic Republic of Congo: humanitarian impact and lessons learned.9 Tackling urban vulnerability: an operational framework for aid organisations.8 Climate change and disaster risk in urban environments.7 Military action in an urban area: the humanitarian consequences of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq.6 Cash relief in an urban environment: the BRCS/IRCS programme following the Bam earthquake.5 Humanitarian relief in chronically vulnerable urban and peri-urban contexts: responding to Tropical Storm Jeanne in Gonaives, Haiti.4 The MAP approach: using the market to deliver humanitarian aid in Zimbabwe.3 Urbanisation and the social protection of refugees in Nairobi.2 The African Urban Risk Analysis Network (AURAN).1 Responding to HIV/AIDS and chronic vulnerability in an urban context: lessons learned from informal street traders in Durban, South Africa.Issue 35 Humanitarian action in urban contexts.View all Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response and Recovery Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Emergencies Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) View all Conflict, security and armed groups View all Community engagement and accountability ![]()
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