Mouse-holing is a tactic used in urban warfare in which soldiers create access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunneling through a wall. The tactic is used to avoid open streets since advancing infantry, caught in enfilade, are easily targeted by machine-gun and sniper fire.[1][2] Another purpose is to reach enemy troops hidden within a structure.[3]
- ^ Priestley 2006.
- ^ US Army 2011, par. 5-91.
- ^ Thomas Glen Lockhart (27 November 2012). Last Man Standing: The Life of Smokey Smith, Vc, 1914-2005. Douglas & McIntyre. p. 26. ISBN 978-1460201992. Retrieved 26 December 2018.