This series by Dr Charles Knight presents and then explains a framework of twelve challenges – a tool to understand, describe and analyse the key problems of urban operations.
Dr Charles Knight researches capability for operations amongst populations and structures at UNSW and CSU. He has a practitioner and unconventional warfare background having served in the UK military and other armed forces. He also wrote the Australian urban doctrine and as a reservist is the SO1 Urban Operations at the Australian Army Research Centre. Views expressed are his own.