Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 07:38:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Kamaria Ngozi <ngozi@secapl.com>

 
 WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- Top Marine Corps commanders will go
to Chicago to study the problems of fighting in urban areas, as part of a
two-year project focusing on tactics for winning future wars.

 The officers will visit the city May 5-7.

 Military planners believe future wars will be fought across urban
landscapes, and population projections show about 70 percent of the
world's people will live in cities and suburbs by the year 2010.

 Later this year, Marine commanders will also visit New York City,
Jacksonville, Fla., and Charleston, S.C., for further study.

 Fighting in a city requires different tactics than combat in open
country, Marine officials said. Troops must learn to cope with, and take
advantage of, skyscrapers, sewer systems, bridges, mass transit systems
and tunnels if they are going to drive a determined enemy out of a modern
city.

 The Marine Corps Warfighting Center in Quantico, Va., will run the
training program with the help of Chicago police, with about 60 Marine
officers taking part.
 

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