Urban War This Winter In Afghanistan?

Some analysts are predicting an urban based war in Afghanistan as the winter closes in. American M-1 Abrams tanks are just about to be introduced to the war theatre. Arrival is expected in the next few weeks of the Marine Corps Tankers with a detachment of 14 Abrams with their 120mm main guns and their long-distance range. Watch out for much collateral damage and deaths of 'compound dwellers' as they foul up with the tanks as they have with the bombings from the air and the night raids (see recent posts). It won't be long before the 70-ton tanks will be rolling right past the bombed-out hulks of Soviet tanks scattered across the landscape as rusted symbols of the failures of the last empire that tried and failed to occupy Afghanistan. 
Analysts say that means intense urban warfare is on the horizon particularly in the southern city of Kandahar.