Jan 22, 2014
London is the most heavily instrumented piece of urban terrain on the planet. There are something like 600,000 surveillance cameras in London. But there's probably 10 times that many cell phone cameras on people's cell phones. And the ability of the community to communicate amongst themselves, to pass imagery, to pass messages and increasingly to organise and operate via remote connectivity really favours rebels or insurgents against the state.
David Kilcullen
Source: Conflict pattern shifting to urban spaces: David Kilcullen