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Title Complex Terrain Megacities and the Changing Character of Urban Operations / edited by Benjamin M. Jensen, PhD, Henrik Breitenbauch, PhD, Brandon Valeriano, PhD
Published Quantico, VA : Marine Corps University Press, 2019
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 377 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Description based on print version record
Subject Integrated operations (Military science)
Cities and towns -- Growth -- Strategic aspects
Metropolitan areas -- Strategic aspects
Urban warfare -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies
Urban warfare.
Integrated operations (Military science)
Urban warfare
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Valeriano, Brandon, editor
Breitenbauch, Henrik, editor
Jensen, Benjamin M., editor
Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 2019028784
ISBN 9781737040422
1737040425