MCTP 12-10B governs urban operations across urban environments, offensive and defensive operations, stability operations, and large-scale combat.
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It addresses urban terrain, populations, infrastructure, warfighting functions, tactical considerations, and operations across offensive, defensive, stability, and large-scale combat contexts. It describes planning considerations, defense characteristics, infiltration, delays, and realistic dense urban terrain training environments.
Urban combat operations compress the time available to think and act at the tactical level. (paragraph 3-88)
Commanders consider the seven general characteristics of a successful defense to regain the initiative from attacking enemy forces: preparation, security, disruption, mass and concentration, maneuver, operations in depth, and flexibility. (paragraph 5-5)
Infiltration secures key objectives in the urban area while avoiding unnecessary combat with enemy defensive forces in conditions favorable to them (see figure 4-11 on page 4-18). (paragraph 4-39)
An urban environment's natural cover and concealment, as well as the compartmented effects, facilitates delays. (paragraph 5-47)
Developing a realistic training environment that includes the full range of military operations, from major combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is critical to the force's success in the urban environment.