Should the Army consider how to fight in wired "smart cities"? After the first hour of fighting kills electricity and starts turning the city into rubble, how smart will the city be?
The increasing adoption of data-driven urban technologies reshapes how cities operate—but this ongoing transformation is still commonly overlooked in US doctrine and training. Military experts note that the modern city constitutes “the least understood of potential conflict environments.”
As cities evolve into digital terrains, the failure to adapt military understanding and readiness to this new urban reality poses blind spots.
Smart cities will be turned into dumb rubble by high explosives. Adapt to that.
I say the Army should avoid them. And if you bring up the need to fight in megacities, which one would that be?
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