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Complex terrain : megacities and the changing character of urban combat / edited by Benjamin M. Jensen, PhD, Henrik Breitenbauch, PhD, Brandon Valeriano, PhD.

Quantico, Virginia : MCUP, Marine Corps University Press, 2019.

Urban warfare -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies.

Metropolitan areas -- Strategic aspects.

Cities and towns -- Growth -- Strategic aspects.

Integrated operations (Military science)

9780160954344 (paperback)

0160954347 (paperback)

xv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Third World megacities : an illusion of control / Lieutenant Commander Muhammad Maooz Akrama -- Territorialization of the megacity : exploiting social borders / Major Alexandra V. Gerbracht -- The 2008 Battle of Sadr City : implications for future urban combat / David E. Johnson and M. Wade Markel -- ISIL's territorial logic of urban control in Mosul and al-Raqqah : city as a system analytical framework / Erin M. Simpson -- Distributed influence : enabling maneuver in a megacity / Major Jonathon T. Frerichs -- Coordinating chaos : integrating capabilities in future urban conflict / Major Robert D. Barbaree III -- Joint combined arms maneuver in the megacity : learning to thrive in chaos / Major Geoffrey B. Lynch -- Cyberspace in the megacity : thickening the fog of war? / Major Joseph I. Farina -- Take it, don't break it : a megacity concept of operations / Colleen Borley -- Symbiotic warfare : resource competition and conflict / Major Christina L. Manning -- Air domain dominance in a megacity / Major Nathan J. Storm -- Virtual resistance networks : enabling and protecting electronic information flows in the megacity / Colin R. Relihan -- The city prism : a triangle of urban military operations / Henrik Breitenbauch, Mark Winther, and Mikkel Broen Jakobsen -- The military implications of complex terrain in twenty-first century urban areas / Benjamin Jensen.

"This book explores military operations, including indirect support to other interagency actors and functions in dense urban terrain and megacities. Dense urban terrain describes urban areas with high population densities that, in the developing world, often outstrip the capacity of local governance systems to exert formal control. The term megacity describes a city with a population of 10 million or more. These environments define patterns of human settlement. In 1950, only 30 percent of the world's population lived in cities compared to more than 55 percent in 2018. Much of this growth is concentrated in large, urban centers that connect a global flow of goods and ideas. By 2030, there will be more than 40 of these megacities"--

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