Forecasting the Future of Urban Warfare

March 01, 2024 00:34:00
Forecasting the Future of Urban Warfare
Urban Warfare Project
Forecasting the Future of Urban Warfare

Mar 01 2024 | 00:34:00

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Show Notes

In this episode, John Spencer is joined by retired Colonel Kevin Felix. He served 30 years in the US Army, with his last assignment as chief of Army Capabilities and Integration Center's Future Warfare Division. He describes the Army’s different approaches for thinking about and studying the future of warfare, including major efforts beginning in 2014 to focus on global urbanization, including by incorporating it into wargames like Unified Quest. The discussion highlights the complex challenge of predicting the future, developing warfighting concepts informed by those predictions, and ultimately making decisions about what the future of warfare will require of the US Army.

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