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A Pentagon Video/Urban Warfare is coming

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2016 in General Discussion
The US military is preparing for urban warfare. Under capitalized urban governments is here right in The USA! With illegal immigration in mass then 2030 is coming and The United Nations is preparing and it seems The U.S.Army is preparing for armed conflict with it's citizens!

serf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPdOZbyzbw

Published on Oct 14, 2016

According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of "Escape from New York" and "Robocop" - with dashes of the "Warriors" and "Divergent" thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes - brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.

At least that's the scenario outlined in "Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity," a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations University. All that stands between the coming chaos and the good people of Lagos and Dhaka (or maybe even New York City) is the U.S. Army, according to the video, which The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

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  • tsavo303tsavo303 Member Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    AaaaaaAaaaaaaHHHhHhHHH!!!,!!
  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Godzilla will save us....
  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It would be very interesting if the video had included some proof that it is a "Pentagon video"
  • medic07medic07 Member Posts: 5,222 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Perhaps it is just me having spent 26 years in uniform and deployed to multiple locations around the globe, but what that video is talking about is our military adapting to the anticipated chaotic urban environment of 3rd world countries.

    We have been changing our doctrine since Korea and Vietnam to handle MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) missions. The days of facing your opponents military force on an open field away from civilians is over. The threat is higher from NGO (Non Govermental Organziations) than from a uniformed force of another nation. Terrorism is cheap and easy to wage for even the smallest of groups and some nations would prefer radical groups to carry out operations for them instead of them actually risking legal sanctioned warfare.

    To expect the military to not think ahead is unacceptable. They should plan for any and all contingencies.
  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    posse comitatus act forbids our military from actions in our country.
  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by medic07
    Perhaps it is just me having spent 26 years in uniform and deployed to multiple locations around the globe, but what that video is talking about is our military adapting to the anticipated chaotic urban environment of 3rd world countries.

    We have been changing our doctrine since Korea and Vietnam to handle MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) missions. The days of facing your opponents military force on an open field away from civilians is over. The threat is higher from NGO (Non Govermental Organziations) than from a uniformed force of another nation. Terrorism is cheap and easy to wage for even the smallest of groups and some nations would prefer radical groups to carry out operations for them instead of them actually risking legal sanctioned warfare.

    To expect the military to not think ahead is unacceptable. They should plan for any and all contingencies.


    Yes that is true however The USA is becoming more like third world countries each passing day with blue collar factory workers losing their jobs to oversea workers plus hordes of illegals pouring in The USA taking all government subsidies plus service and construction jobs.

    And don't forget A.I. robot machines along with 3-d printing which is technology pushing out skilled and semi skilled workers into unemployment and poverty. This is not just about other areas in the world it's about The United Nations 2030 agenda which The USA will be part of.


    serf
  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,509 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As medic says, the Pentagon has to have plans to handle every conceivable contingency. There are almost certainly plans for how to invade Canada, for how to fight France, and how to handle a beach invasion of New Jersey staged by Jamaica. It doesn't mean that any of those things are expected to happen. Precisely the opposite: they are plans for what nobody expects to happen.

    Because when the last thing you expect to happen DOES, you'd better have some plan ready to go.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • thorhammerthorhammer Member Posts: 993 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by woodhog
    posse comitatus act forbids our military from actions in our country.


    The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act)of 2012 allows our president to use military forces
    inside the United States against citizens. If there were an
    uprising the President could declare martial law and send in the
    military. anyone could be detained indefinitely, no trial, no more
    legal rights if your considered a subversive, or rose up against the
    government.

    I believe passed by congress and signed by Obama.
  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    The military has always prepared for the last war it fought; Congress rarely funds futuristic gear that might help down the road, instead it pays billions in R&D to defense contractors to enrich their former colleagues & blend our technology with the Chinese/Russians.
    That Carter, Klinton & Oblammy have aided, abetted & sold those foreign gubmints our secrets hasn't helped.
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the biggest enemy to the AMERICAN citizen and taxpayer is the unamerican government.....their pocket $$$ first and any illegal or foreign country benefitted/protected before a citizen
  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    the biggest enemy to the AMERICAN citizen and taxpayer is the unamerican government.....their pocket $$$ first and any illegal or foreign country benefitted/protected before a citizen





    BINGO!!
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