{"id":993,"date":"2004-05-13T11:15:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=993"},"modified":"2009-04-05T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T16:33:17","slug":"the-pentagon-as-slumlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/05\/13\/the-pentagon-as-slumlord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon as slumlord"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"Cite\">\n<p>\nThe Mogadishu debacle of 1993, when neighbourhood militias inflicted 60 percent casualties on elite army rangers, forced US strategists to rethink what is known in Pentagonese as &#8216;Mout: Militarised Operations on Urbanised Terrain&#8217;. Ultimately a National Defence Panel review in December 1997 castigated the army as unprepared for protracted combat in the impassable maze-like streets of poor cities. As a result, the four armed services launched crash programmes to master streetfighting under realistic Third World conditions. &#8216;The future of warfare&#8217;, the journal of the Army War College declared, &#8216;lies in the streets, sewers, high-rise buildings, and sprawl of houses that form the broken cities of the world.&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistreview.org.uk\/article.php?articlenumber=8884\"><cite>Socialist Review<\/cite><\/a>, May 2004\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe results of this are currently on display in Iraq&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">\nLink via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20six.de\/fessers\">Genosse Tabu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mogadishu debacle of 1993, when neighbourhood militias inflicted 60 percent casualties on elite army rangers, forced US strategists to rethink what is known in Pentagonese as &#8216;Mout: Militarised Operations on Urbanised Terrain&#8217;. Ultimately a National Defence Panel review in December 1997 castigated the army as unprepared for protracted combat in the impassable maze-like streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror","category-warfare-military-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}