That’s how you take a Urban center with minimal loss of life for the attacking side. You blow it apart building by building.
“minimal loss of life for the attacking side.”
Last month (Aug), our allied Infantry on the ground (Kurds and SDF) achieved a better than 10 to 1 kill ratio against ISIS - on the attack, against well prepared defenders in an urban environment.
The tactics have been dialed in against ISIS, and there is not a damn thing they can do to stop what it coming for them. The US-led coalition has been willing to drop a hundred artillery rounds rather than risk an Infantryman’s life probing for booby traps, or send in an airstrike for a single sniper.
Where the ISIS Caliphate rose up, ruins remain in their wake.