The Australian Army’s Directorate of Future Land Warfare has stated that it is preparing for potential hi-tech combat in Asia’s megacities against China’s People’s Liberation Army, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on July 15.
The report said the army will face very different kinds of land wars in the future, unlike its experience combating insurgents in the rural and remote terrain of Afghanistan and Iraq. The report stated that although the United States will continue to be the most influential strategic actor in the Asia-Pacific region, the Australian Army expects China’s growing economic and military power likely to influence the nation’s military strategy.
The report projected that the world’s population will reach 8 billion by 2030, and said that Asia’s megacities would be the potential backdrop for warfare in the near future.
“Operating in high-density urban terrain ‘will no longer be a discretionary activity’ for Australia’s small army, which will need to fight in congested areas where the enemy can easily hide and the risks of ambush and collateral damage to civilians are high,” the paper stated.
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