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"When
the US Army looks to the future, it sees cities. Dense, sprawling,
congested cities where criminal and extremist groups flourish almost
undetected by authorities, but who can influence the lives of the
population while undermining the authority of the state. And the
service is convinced that these 'megacities' of 20 million or more
people will be the battleground of the future.”
“The
United Nations estimates that such massive cities will increasingly
become part of the worldwide landscape by 2030, when the current
global urban population of 3.6 billion will likely hit about 5
billion — meaning that 60 percent of all humans will live in
cities.”
... “it
is inevitable that at some point the United States Army will be asked
to operate in a megacity and currently the Army is ill-prepared to do
so.”
“McMaster
said that by 2030, the Army wants to provide infantry squads 'access
to aviation and air support and full-motion video, [along with] the
ability to overwhelm the enemy during chance contact.' One of the key
things is the firepower of the squad, particularly 'shoulder-fired
weapons capabilities, counter-defilade capabilities, as well as
flying munitions and combined arms … mobile protected platforms
capable of precision firepower.'”
In
an alternative scenario, the "criminal and extremist groups"
inside the megacities will be the armies of desperate against the new
feudalism of the elites in the absence of any form of state. There
will be no society to be protected but only working machines and
resources:
“...
the nation-state should be destroyed as the elementary mechanism
required to protect the rights of the majority. Until then, the state
will be used to distribute a minimum subvention to the armies of
unemployed, so that the big banks and corporations not to be
threatened by sudden and massive uncontrolled riots of totally
desperate people.”
“We see
a rise of private armies that act in various battlefields, like in
Ukraine, exactly because in the absence of the nation-states and the
national armies, someone has to protect the natural resources and the
new means of production for the dominant elite. But when the arms
industry will fully automate the new weapons, private armies will
only serve as assistance to fully automated war machines. We already
see the test fields of the weapons of the future˙ the drones in
Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. It's not accidental that the arms
industries demonstrate new weapons designed to be used inside urban
areas for suppression of potential riots. There will be no 'outside
enemy' in the future. The threat for the dominant system will come
from the interior, the big urban centers. Soldier-robots will protect
worker-robots and resources.”
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