Major Ralph Peters, in Parameters (journal of the Army War College)
describes (in 1996) a coming era of "prolonged, sporadic, low-intensity urban conflict"
"Our Soldiers, Their Cities" -- Peters calls cities "citadels of the dispossessed and irreconcilable"
Beck 296: "What you have [in Peters' piece] is a detailed and more or less accurate description, before the fact, of the war on terror that the United States spent the first two decades of the twenty-first century fighting"
299: Peters also shows an emerging awareness "that global stagnation is producing deindustrialization, persistent underemployment, and growing surplus populations inside the United States as well"
his "new kind of war fighting" suggested "domestic applications [...] those same tactics could also be used to manage urban poverty, the discontent of the chronically underemployed, and unwanted migrants at home"
in the margins, I wrote "ICE"