PENTAGON PREPARING FOR 100 YEAR URBAN WAR

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NICK TURSE, TOM DISPATCH - Weapons that take out one floor of a city
building, but leave the structure standing. Robot spies that look like
dragonflies that can fly into your apartment to scope its contents.
Intensity sound transmitters - already tentatively deployed in the
United States - to cause excruciating pain to crowds of thousands.
Sensors that can "see" every person in an apartment building, and take
out those targeted. The global spread of mega-cities, largely shanty
towns of the dispossessed in poorer nations, and the ruler's unease at
growing public discontent even in the developed world, have caused
Pentagon planners and their hip-joined private contractors to conclude
that urban warfare is the future. . .

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.". . .

The largest contractors in the military-corporate complex are already
hard at work helping the Pentagon prepare for future urban occupations.
Raytheon, L-3 Communications, and Science Applications International
Corporation - the 5th, 7th, and 10th largest Pentagon contractors last
year, taking in a combined $18.4-plus billion from the Department of
Defense - have all signed Cooperative Research and Development
Agreements with the U.S. Joint Forces Command, according to Berry "Dan"
Fox, the Deputy Director of Science and Technology at its Joint Urban
Operations Office.

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