This answer won’t go down well with some people.
The thing is that the breaching techniques that modern armies use (and that we’ve seen ad nauseam on YouTube) are basically police techniques and not military tactics.
They only work in stabilization and peacekeeping missions, not in urban warfare.
You can only enter a house this way (in a line, one guy after the other) when you expect a single shooter there, or maybe a smuggler or a group of criminals with handguns.
Two guys from my squad in Kosovo defending a building against an enemy attack. (Photo: Visar Kryesziu, The Associated Press)
You have enough firepower to kill or arrest them, especially if you use the element of surprise (for example, with a dawn raid). Your only preparation is some tear gas or a stun grenade that you’ve thrown inside before you entered.
Those are police SWAT tactics. You don't want to kill a civilian.
During a war, however, when you fight in an urban area, you won't proceed like this. Preferably, you have some heavy artillery or some tanks at your side that take the complete building where your enemy is positioned down.
If you don't do that, the enemy won't even let you come near their position. You'll be dead meat long before some of your buddies will be able to kick in the front door.
And, if for some reason you have to go into an intact building, you go through the windows, climb on the roof to get in from there, or blow a big hole in the back wall.
Preferably, you do all these things at the same time while your machine gunners are providing you with a hell of a lot of suppressive fire. In addition to this, you'll use hand grenades, a lot of them. Still, be prepared to lose some of your buddies.
This is the difference between warfighting and peacekeeping.
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