Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq Capa dura - 2012

Louis DiMarco retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army in 2005 after more than 24 years of active service.  He was commissioned as an Armor officer in the US Army from the US Military Academy in 1981.  His military assignments include command and staff positions in armored cavalry squadrons and division, corps and joint forces headquarters.  He was a doctrine writer both at the U.S. Army Armor Center at Fort Knox, and the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth. His civilian education includes a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, a Masters in Military Art and Science from the US Army Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth Kansas, and a Masters of Arts Degree in International Relations from Salve Regina University, Rhode Island.  He is a Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University and is writing a dissertation focused on the US Army occupation operations, 1865 to 1940.  Currently Col. DiMarco is assigned to the faculty of the Army Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth Kansas where he teaches military history and elective courses on the history of modern urban warfare and modern warfare in the Middle East. Col. DiMarco has written and lectured on a variety of military affairs topics including urban warfare and counterinsurgency.