The Future of Warfare Will Be Urban, Coastal, and Irregular
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The Future of Warfare Will Be Urban, Coastal, and Irregular
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We Were Young, and Urban Once
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Westgate Mall Attacks: Urban Areas Battleground of the 21st Century
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What Happens When Cities Fall Apart?
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Into the Cities; Dark, Dense, and Dangerous
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The ‘New’ Playbook? Urban Siege in Nairobi
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Film Review: Narco Cultura – A Tale of Three Cities
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Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
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Mega Cities, Ungoverned Areas, and the Challenge of Army Urban Combat Operations in 2030-2040
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The Emergence of Feral and Criminal Cities
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A Proposed Framework for Appreciating Megacities: A US Army Perspective
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On Megacities
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Military Operations in the Growing Urban Landscapes of the Future
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Intelligence Challenges in Urban Operations
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US Army Sees 'Megacities' As the Future Battlefield
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Employing Armor Against the Islamic State: The Inevitable Urban Combined Arms Fight
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You'd be surprised what people run search queries for around these parts.
No commentary, but posted because we will need the information again in the future...and someone has already done some of the heavy lifting.
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/car...bs/dimarco.pdf
There will come a time when the junior leaders who fought at the tactical level of the squad, platoon and company become further removed from the echelons where they learned their trade through blood, sweat, and tears. Those who follow should not be forced to relearn lessons the hard way.
I will read this. thanks.
Urban Combat Will Test US Strategy in Iraq
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Hat tip to WoTR for this article, which starts with:Link:http://warontherocks.com/2015/04/pre.../?singlepage=1Quote:
Operation Protective Edge demonstrated both the tactical challenges and strategic threat posed by subterranean warfare (i.e. tunnels), which is likely to proliferate in the coming years as weaker combatants seek to evade detection and targeting by air assets.
A short newspaper article by Zoha Waseem, a Karachi student studying @ Kings College War Studies:http://tribune.com.pk/story/919102/p...e-of-urbicide/
Her outlook is global, not Karachi-bound.
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From the realm of urban security studies emerge three relatively young frameworks for understanding conflicts in cities: urban securitisation, new military urbanism and urbicide.
(Later) It is imperative that we reorient our internal security policies towards the urban citizen and prioritise citizen security
City As a System Analytical Framework: A Structured Analytical Approach to Understanding and Acting in Urban Environments
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Report: Latin American Governments Fail to Tackle Booming Urban Slums
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More Migrants Heading to Cities
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Islamic State Becoming Urban Guerrilla Threat
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David Betz has two articles on this topic this month. First on WoTR a review of training offered by the IDF acting as a catalyst for his thinking, which starts with:Link:http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/pee...are-in-israel/Quote:
I traveled recently to Israel to visit a state-of-the-art military training facility in the southern Negev Desert opened by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) last year. The facility, at the Tze’elim army base, is meant to simulate urban operations of the kind the Israelis have so often faced in their conflicts with Palestinian and Lebanese militants. Though the degree of emphasis the IDF has placed on military operations in urban terrain has waxed and waned, since the mid-1980s at least it has maintained an extensive training infrastructure for this purpose...
(added) Vice News has a 11 minute video report, from July 20154, on the IDF training facility:https://news.vice.com/video/war-game...-urban-warfare
Curiously he notes the Bundeswehr were training there.
On Kings of War a longer article, with some historical sketches to enhance the arguments:http://kingsofwar.org.uk/2015/12/thi...-underground/?
A hour long voice only podcast on the IISS You Tube channel explained as:Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZFRnepKaAQuote:
This webinar with Antnio Sampaio, IISS Research Associate for Security and Development, analyses the conduct of recent stability operations within large and mega-cities, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. Cities such as Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Medelln (Colombia) have developed an innovative response involving law enforcement, military and development tools for urban security.
Urban Combat in Iraq: Ramadi Civilians Force Adjustment in Fight Against Islamic State
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Hat tip to WoTR for this article. Urban warfare features here regularly, e.g David Killcullen has argued the USA must prepare for operations in mega-cities. One aspect of such operations is having intelligence and the author argues:Link:http://warontherocks.com/2016/01/bri...-mega-cities/?Quote:
America’s enemies see the advantages of the seemingly impenetrable clutter that dominates the modern city. The Army’s current approach to learning about this environment is to seek the diamonds scattered amidst this clutter. What we are missing, though, is that the clutter itself is the jewel. Enormous amounts of readily available data can reveal more about a city, its population, and the nefarious actors residing there than we could have imagined before. To truly understand this environment the Army must fundamentally change its approach to understanding the environment: It must adopt a holistic approach enabled by big data analytics.
I don't doubt there is data in such places as Lagos, Nigeria, but how can the fullest picture be created? Mobile / cell phone data is one part and given the level of governance how much data exists that can be accessed and in a format that the USA and others can use?
Here is one passage on phone data:The article has many links; one is for this SWJ piece:http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art...-perspective-0Quote:
There are currently almost 7 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, nearly overtaking the world’s population. While access to the data that this brings can be useful in rural areas, it is truly invaluable in large urban environments where aggregate data can reveal social trends, groupings, and fault lines that give leaders significant clarity about the social and physical landscape. If used correctly, it’s like handing the commander what MIT’s Sandy Pentland calls a “socio-scope” that allows him to see and track things in real time that he could never see before.
There is another thread of vale: Intelligence, data and COIN http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=5149
Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Study of Urban Conflict and Multinational Operations
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Unmanned Systems in Support of Future Medical Operations in Dense Urban Environments
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Operational Environment Implications of the Megacity to the US Army
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Technical Challenges for Simulation and Training in Megacities
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Megacities: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Megacities: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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How to Hold or Take a Big City -- Seven Lines of Effort
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Mad Scientist Speaker Series: Megacities and Dense Urban Areas
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U.S. Army Mega City Operations: Enduring Principles and Innovative Technologies
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Megacities and Dense Urban Environments: Obstacle or Opportunity?
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Communications in Sub- and Superterranean Structures
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Anticipating Megacity Responses to Shocks: Using Urban Integration and Connectedness to Assess Resilience
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Readers will know I am skeptical about the value of big data in future operations in mega-cities, so it was interesting to read this civilian project's use of mobile phone data in the Yemen to assess the impact of he Arab Spring.
There is a podcast on I-Tunes, behind a registration "wall".
Backed by highlights in an article:http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...i-cell-phones/
A fuller article is in Foreign Policy, behind a registration "wall":https://www.foreignaffairs.com/artic.../yemen-calling
An Analytic Framework for Operations in Dense Urban Areas
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A Look at Urban Warfare in the Syrian City of Aleppo
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Assessing Physiological Response to Toxic Industrial Chemical Exposure in Megacities
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Discovered a website today on the "peace walls" in Belfast, Northern Ireland which once separated communities and were intended to reduce violence. Urban barriers, a polite term for urban military architecture, appeared in Iraq on a massive scale awhile back. Though I cannot recall a thread on them.
The website has a collection of photos and links:http://www.peacewall-archive.net/ On their Twitter there is much more, including a few photos in the grim years of the 1970's with fortified army bases:https://twitter.com/Peacewalls
TED Talk: How Megacities Change the Map of the World
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"New".* DDilegge and I started talking about this in 1998 or 1996, IIRC.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debat...in-megacities/Quote:
The nearly five-year civil war in Syria has exposed some of the difficulties that military forces have conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance against terrorists and insurgents in crowded urban environments. These challenges, while not insurmountable, will continue to plague even the most advanced military forces, including the United States, as migration out of rural areas and into cities continues unabated.
For the foreseeable future, deterring and countering near-peer adversaries such as Russia and China will undoubtedly remain at the forefront of American grand strategy. But in addition to meeting the challenges associated with traditional and well-known state-based threats, the U.S. military will be expected to combat an array of violent non-state actors — a blanket term that includes well-established groups like Islamic State, al Qaeda and the transnational criminal gang MS-13 but also countless other and less well-known militias, insurgent groups and terrorist organizations.
See also
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ght=megacities
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