(Los Angeles Times) - The kind of urban fighting the U.S. faced in Mogadishu would little resemble such fighting in Baghdad, which would involve the full force of the U.S. conventional arsenal. The most valuable armored tool in such an assault would probably be the bulldozer, found by the Israelis in Jenin to be their most effective weapon. It proved virtually impervious to mines and booby traps and simply crushed any resistance in its path. "The Israelis have shown that you can conduct urban assaults, moving in city streets, without taking massive casualties," said Mac Dorsey, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former chief of staff for the Army's Special Operations Command.
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