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Bookmark or Share- Urban Warfare: The 2008 Battle for Sadr City | RANDThe result: high casualties on both sides and rubbled cities. The 2008 battle for Sadr City offers a different model, in which the challenges were even more formidable than those posed by Grozny and Fallujah. Sadr City is part of Baghdad and has an estimated population of 2.4 million.
- Sadr City - WikipediaSadr City – or more accurately Thawra District (Arabic: حيّ الثورة, romanized: Ḥayy ath-Thawra) – is one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad. A public housing project neglected by Saddam Hussein , Sadr City holds around 1 million residents.
- The 2008 Battle of Sadr City: Reimagining Urban Combat | RANDAnalyzes the 2008 Battle of Sadr City, and presents insights and lessons learned. This analysis advances understanding of urban operations and thereby helps the Army focus on what capabilities it will need in the future for such conflicts.
- Stealing the Enemy’s Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr CitySince 9/11, the US military has predominantly been engaged in low-intensity counterinsurgency and stability operations, but the Battle of Sadr City was a high-intensity offensive mission against an enemy-held area. Urban terrain gives a distinct advantage to a defender.
- Siege of Sadr City - WikipediaOn May 3, US forces, using a guided multiple-launch rocket system (GMLRS), struck a militant command and control center housed in a building just 55 yards (50 m) away from the al-Sadr Hospital, one of two main hospitals in Sadr City. The strike caused heavy damage to the hospital, destroying or damaging a dozen ambulances and wounding 28 civilians.
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