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Vauban siege concept applied to Stalingrad street fighting- move rubble to rubble building to building with parallels and communication “trenches” which may well be through buildings or even underground. What is important are the essential ends of Vauban’s method or “means” :

Parallels advancing.

Advancing Supports for fires.

Communications-LOCs mainly for logistics.

The objective being whatever node or hub is important to your opponent.

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I have already idle scenarios of Vauban’s methods of siege in alternative history of Stalingrad street fighting.

This should be an interesting link.

We should not do more than consider the situation. There’s few if any conceivable bastions capable of withstanding non nuclear weapons and explosives such as Fuel Air Bombs or Hypersonic penetrating weapons such as were just demonstrated by Russia.

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