Ingenjörkompaniet i urban miljö ? ett historiskt perspektiv på nutida förmågor
Urban operations is one of the most difficult challenges a modern army can be tasked with. These challenges have been studied in history and present with various perspectives, but rarely from a combat engineering point of view. The purpose of this thesis has been to study the urban capabilities of a Swedish combat engineer company by examining if it can perform similar combat engineering fieldwork that supported the basic capabilities mobility, defence and effect in Operation AL FAJR, Fallujah Iraq 2004. These are the capabilities a Swedish engineer company are primarily designed to support in urban operations.For example, the study of Operation AL FAJR has shown that fieldwork supported mobility with breaching minefields, obstacles, walls and doors. Defence by creating defensive positions and obstacles. Effect by destroying weapons caches and fortified buildings with bulldozers and explosives. The results of this study indicates that a Swedish combat engineer company has the capability to perform most of the fieldwork performed in Operation AL FAJR. However, the company lacks capability to destroy fortified buildings and perform explosive mine and obstacle breaching, all examples on fieldwork performed in AL FAJR.