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TomDispatch: ,,, The other virulent exchange is of violence, our wars
on terror, drugs, whatever. I mean if you think about Vietnam and then
Iraq, the jungle quite literally becomes the slum city in the annals
of modern war.

MikeDavis: Without minimizing the explosive social contradictions
still stored up in the countryside, it's clear that the future of
guerrilla warfare, insurrection against the world system, has moved
into the city. Nobody has realized this with as much clarity as the
Pentagon, or more vigorously tried to grapple with its empirical
consequences. Its strategists are way ahead of geopoliticians and
traditional foreign-relations types in understanding the significance
of a world of slums…

TD: ...and of global warming.

Davis: Yes, because they realize the potential instability it will
create and also perhaps imagine advantageous shifts in the balance of
power in its wake.

What the U.S. has demonstrated in recent years is an extraordinary
ability to knock out the hierarchical organization of the modern city,
to attack its crucial infrastructures and nodes, to blow up the TV
stations, take out the pipelines and bridges. Smart bombs can do that,
but simultaneously the Pentagon discovered that this technology isn't
applicable to the slum periphery, to the labyrinthine, unmapped,
almost unknown parts of the city which lack hierarchies, lack
centralized infrastructures, lack tall buildings. There's really quite
an extraordinary military literature trying to address what the
Pentagon sees as the most novel terrain of this century, which it now
models in the slums of Karachi, Port au Prince, and Baghdad.


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