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Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?: Megacities and Autonomous Systems

Sat, 08/25/2018 - 12:27am
This article is the latest addition to the U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Mad Scientist Initiative’s Future of Warfare 2030-2050 project at Small Wars Journal. Autonomous systems in a complex city environment would present both opportunities and challenges for U.S. Army units operating in such environments. Over the next decades, technologies will also transform these operating environments.

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A Flexible Data-Centric Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Hyper Connected Megacities SWJED Fri, 07/14/2017 - 6:27am

TRADOC Mad Scientist Project: Megacities - or more generally Dense Urban Areas - will emerge at the epicenter of future events necessitating military intervention.

Ten Million is Not Enough: Coming to Grips with Megacities’ Challenges and Opportunities SWJED Wed, 01/25/2017 - 6:37pm

In 2008 over half of the world's population lived in urban areas - at that point more of earth’s residents lived in built-up areas than there were people in the world forty years before.