Entire story at link below,
Natalia
Pentagon Plans 100-Year Global War in the Cities
*by Nick Turse*
/"There were few imaginable technologies that weren't being considered
for the 100-year battle these men are convinced is ahead of us in the
planet's city streets."/
/This article previously appeared in TomDispatch.com
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/>.
/Duane Schattle doesn't mince words. "The cities are the problem," he
says. A retired Marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban
warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late 1990s, he now serves as
director of the Joint Urban Operations Office at U.S. Joint Forces
Command. He sees the war in the streets of Iraq's cities as the
prototype for tomorrow's battlespace. "This is the next fight," he
warns. "The future of warfare is what we see now."
He isn't alone. "We think urban is the future," says James Lasswell, a
retired colonel who now heads the Office of Science and Technology at
the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. "Everything worth fighting for
is in the urban environment." And Wayne Michael Hall, a retired Army
brigadier general and the senior intelligence advisor in Schattle's
operation, has a similar assessment, "We will be fighting in urban
terrain for the next hundred years."
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/The Pentagon has evidently decided to prepare for 100 years of war
against various outposts of a restless, oppressed population of
slum-dwellers one billion strong and growing at an estimated rate of 25
million a year."/
To the rest of the world, at least, it's clear enough that the Pentagon
knows how to redden city streets in the developing world, just not win
wars there; but in Washington - by the evidence of this "Joint Urban
Operations, 2007" conference - it matters little. Advised, outfitted,
and educated by these mild-mannered men who sipped sodas and noshed on
burnt egg rolls between presentations, the Pentagon has evidently
decided to prepare for 100 years more of the same: war against various
outposts of a restless, oppressed population of slum-dwellers one
billion strong
<http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/167/> and
growing at an estimated rate of 25 million a year. All of these UO
experts are preparing for an endless struggle that history suggests they
can't win, but that is guaranteed to lead to large-scale destruction,
destabilization, and death. Unsurprisingly, the civilians of the cities
that they plan to occupy, whether living in Karachi, Jakarta, or
Baghdad, have no say in the matter. No one thought to invite any of them
to the conference.
/Nick Turse is the associate editor and research director of
Tomdispatch.com. He has written for the Los Angeles Times
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-vietnam20aug20-sg,0,7940522.storygallery>,
the San Francisco Chronicle, the Nation, the Village Voice, and
regularly for Tomdispatch.com. His first book, The Complex
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805078967/ref=nosim/?tag=nationbooks08-20>,
an exploration of the new military-corporate complex in America, is due
out in the American Empire Project series
<http://www.americanempireproject.com/> by Metropolitan Books in 2008.
His new website NickTurse.com <http://www.nickturse.com/> (up only in
rudimentary form) will fully launch in the coming months./
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