Fighting in Megacities - The Army’s Next Challenge
General Milley is right. We need to take on the megacity combat challenge. If the enemy know we can fight there and win, he is much less likely to fight there at all.
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Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?: Megacities and Autonomous Systems
SWJED
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 12:27am
This article is the latest addition to the U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Mad Scientist Initiative’s Future of Warfare 2030-2050 project at Small Wars Journal. Autonomous systems in a complex city environment would present both opportunities and challenges for U.S. Army units operating in such environments. Over the next decades, technologies will also transform these operating environments.
A Flexible Data-Centric Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Hyper Connected Megacities
SWJED
Fri, 07/14/2017 - 6:27am
TRADOC Mad Scientist Project: Megacities - or more generally Dense Urban Areas - will emerge at the epicenter of future events necessitating military intervention.
On the Likelihood of Large Urban Conflict in the 21st Century
Despite the growing emphasis on megacity contingencies, many question the premise of U.S. participation in megacity conflict.
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Ten Million is Not Enough: Coming to Grips with Megacities’ Challenges and Opportunities
In 2008 over half of the world's population lived in urban areas - at that point more of earth’s residents lived in built-up areas than there were people in the world forty years before.