13 November 2025

A Positive and Forward-Looking Analysis: Evolving Urban Combat in the Shadow of Tomorrow’s Stalingrads

Donald E. Vandergriff

As a longtime advocate for military reform and the infusion of maneuver warfare principles into our armed forces, I applaud the Warfare Mastery Institute’s of Special Tactics Institute and University (STI)’s timely and incisive article, “High Intensity Urban Combat Part 1: How is it Different? Will urban tactics of the GWOT change when we must fight the ‘next Stalingrad?’” published just three days ago on November 3, 2025.

This piece, aligns with several recent releases by a number of experts on this type of warfare to include my series on Substack, as well as a forthcoming military fiction series *Reforging the Sword* (publication TBD) arrives at a pivotal moment for the U.S. military and our Republic. It not only dissects the stark contrasts between the precision-driven close-quarters battle (CQB) tactics honed in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and the brutal realities of high-intensity conventional urban warfare against peer adversaries like Russia, China, or North Korea.

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