Domestic Insecurities : Informal Housing and the Future of Low-Intensity Conflict

A growing number of military training sites in the US and abroad are simulating domestic environments of cities around the world, telegraphing changing conceptions of domesticity within the global security complex.  US military doctrine now emphasizes urban counterinsurgency (COIN) training, recognizing the battlefield of the future will not be an explicit oppositional undertaking in the open deserts or jungles of conflicts past, but will infiltrate the very fabric of the city itself – a fabric mostly composed of homes, not headquarters.  View a video of the issue from MONU here.

 

 

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