Decisive Point Podcast

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-23 – Kevin D. Stringer and Jelle J. H. Hooiveld Urban Resistance to Occupation: An Underestimated Element of Land Warfare`


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Due to a global trend toward urbanization and Russian and Chinese aggression toward Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively, urban resistance to occupation merits greater study. The research here presents a much-needed and unique analysis of Dutch-language primary sources on the Netherlands’ World War II urban resistance to occupation. It provides deeper insights into the occupation experiences of a highly urbanized, densely populated country in which clandestine underground and auxiliary elements played paramount roles in resistance efforts for most of the occupation period. It also illustrates the feasibility of overt, guerrilla-based activity in urban environments during the final phase of a conflict and offers insights into an understudied Landpower activity that modern at-risk countries should develop and hone.


Read the article here: https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/14/


Download the full episode transcript here: https://media.defense.gov/2023/Nov/20/2003344272/-1/-1/0/DP-4-23-TRANSCRIPT_STRINGER_HOOIVLED.PDF


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Keywords: resistance to occupation, Resistance Operating Concept, underground, special operations forces, megacity

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