Pentagon’s Bizarre Future Plans: Megacities and Urban Warfare [Video]

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Megacities, climate change, living habitats, dysfunctional social functions and the “remaining 1% represents the threat of 100,000,” are the context of a pentagon sponsored video revealed by The Intercept. The narrator speaks of environments not yet experienced in city landscapes but that are inevitable, with the military requiring an adaptation of urban warfare and a willingness to “drain the swamp of non-combatants” to engage in a “high intensity conflict” with the remaining “adversaries” within. 

“Social structures are dysfunctional,” and therefore, alternate forms of governance have taken control, according to the narrator. The military must adapt to the new ways of war and must work within these “ecosystems” with minimal disruption to the non-combatant. 
The video, obtained by The Intercept via the FOI Act, is a bizarre documentary produced anonymously for a military audience, to highlight the challenges that will face the military. According to the narrator, this is an inevitable path that the military must set upon – going into a city to engage in  urban warfare.
Nick Turse from The Intercept explains:
“The video was used… for a lesson on ‘The Emerging Terrorism Threat.” JSOU is operated by U.S. Special Operations Command, the umbrella organization for America’s most elite troops… Lacking opening and closing credits, the provenance of “Megacities” was initially unclear, with SOCOM claiming the video was produced by JSOU, before indicating it was actually created by the Army.

“It was made for an internal military audience to illuminate the challenges of operating in megacity environments,” William Layer, an Army spokesperson communicated via e-mail. “The video was privately produced pro bono in spring of 2014 based on ‘Megacities and the United States Army’… The producer of the film wishes to remain anonymous.”