{"id":31011,"date":"2016-10-13T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:22:26","slug":"pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Video Warns of \u201cUnavoidable\u201d Dystopian Future for World\u2019s Biggest Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unfortunately I think the Pentagon is right. We are quickly heading into a dystopian future.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMegacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,\u201d a video created by the Army and used at the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Special Operations University.<\/p>\n

The video is nothing if not an instant dystopian classic: melancholy music, an ominous voiceover, and cascading images of sprawling slums and urban conflict. \u201cMegacities are complex systems where people and structures are compressed together in ways that defy both our understanding of city planning and military doctrine,\u201d says a disembodied voice. \u201cThese are the future breeding grounds, incubators, and launching pads for adversaries and hybrid threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video was used as part of an \u201cAdvanced Special Operations Combating Terrorism\u201d course offered at JSOU earlier this year, for a lesson on \u201cThe Emerging Terrorism Threat.\u201d JSOU is operated by U.S. Special Operations Command, the umbrella organization for America\u2019s most elite troops. JSOU describes itself as geared toward preparing special operations forces \u201cto shape the future strategic environment by providing specialized joint professional military education, developing SOF specific undergraduate and graduate level academic programs and by fostering special operations research.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately I think the Pentagon is right. We are quickly heading into a dystopian future. \u201cMegacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,\u201d a video created by the Army and used at the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Special Operations University. The video is nothing if not an instant dystopian classic: melancholy music, an ominous voiceover, and cascading images of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,9,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-military","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60073,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions\/60073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}