Urban Warfare

Series examining the strategies used by the military throughout history. Urban warfare is the most vicious form of fighting. In an era dominated by technology, it takes a soldier back to hand-to-hand, knife against knife combat. Two bloody urban battles are studied here: Stalingrad, winter 1942-43, fought largely unnecessarily for Hitler's ideological reasons. And the Tet Offensive, 1968, the desperate last throw by the Vietcong to win the political initiative against the United States.