[lbo-talk] Mike Davis on the Pentagon's urban war planning

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 20 12:46:25 PDT 2004


Brad Mayer wrote:


>Perhaps you've seen this.
>
>Pentagon vs. capitalisms' slums: Where the rubber meets the road, as the
>system literally must combat the results of its own contradictions:
>
>http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1386
>
>"The Marine Corps Urban Warfighting Laboratory also staged realistic war
>games ("Urban Warrior") in Oakland and Chicago, while the Army's Special
>Operations Command "invaded" Pittsburgh."
>
>Preparing for civil war?

Against whom?

Doug



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