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🗓️ 5 July 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, just a quick note. This is one of our favorite episodes of the MWI podcast, and it originally aired last summer. |
0:08.0 | Operating in a rural area, if you will, is like having three colored balls on a pool table and you've got the one cue ball and you strike the cue ball. |
0:20.0 | Chances are it may never touch anything else. |
0:23.6 | Operating in a city, again with your density, |
0:25.6 | is like having seven racks of the colored balls on the table |
0:28.6 | and you strike the cue ball |
0:30.6 | and you have no idea what the ultimate consequences |
0:33.6 | are going to be when they all start to impact each other. |
0:36.6 | Every day that consequences are going to be when they all start to impact each other. |
0:41.3 | Every window, every balcony, every manhole cover, every doorway, every corner in a street is a possible firing position. |
0:57.7 | Hey, welcome back to the Modern War Institute podcast. |
1:04.5 | I'm John Amble, editorial director at MWI, and for this episode, I had the chance to speak to Dr. Russell Glenn. |
1:12.0 | Dr. Glenn is the Senior Advisor for Plans and Policy to the Deputy Chief of Staff G2 of the Army's Training and doctrine command. He's also one of the foremost thinkers on urban warfare. |
1:15.8 | Now there's much about fighting in cities that remains pretty hotly debated. |
1:20.6 | We don't have total consensus on definitions of some of the terms involved. |
1:24.9 | There's disagreement about whether we need to spend more money |
1:27.6 | on equipment or on training for urban operations. |
1:31.6 | Even whether we'll ever actually have to fight in large cities is the subject of debate. |
1:37.3 | And yet all of that uncertainty is exactly why we need to keep thinking and talking about |
1:41.1 | the massive challenges posed by cities as operating environments. |
1:45.0 | And a great place to start is this conversation with Dr. Glenn. |
1:49.0 | Before we get into that, I just want to send a special thanks to the Army's Mad Scientist Initiative. |
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