65G and Future Urban Warfare

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Yes, my reason for bringing this up is fighting age males.

An able-bodied male without a job in the future will become a smaller and smaller % of the population, since demand will be so high for labor to sustain the aging population.

The percentage will be smaller, but the absolute numbers are expected to be about the same.

How murderous death cults, terrorists, and foreign agitators work their way into that mess will be more of a challenge for them with ideological recruitment, but it will still happen.

Due to advances in technology, they don't need a lot of people, but they will be the outliers with no real rewards to offer the populace.

So, if there will be a lot fewer terrorists, and if all countries will be concerned mostly with caring for the elderly population, then there will be no need for large standing armies, causing the size of military forces to shrink.

I'm not seeing how significant combat in megacities becomes a real prospect in such a future.

Again, a small arms cartridge is a very grassroots piece of the pie in this whole labyrinth.

And again, while that's true, this is a gun forum dedicated primarily to a specific small arms cartridge, which makes a discussion on that subject far more appropriate than the socio-economic issues with which we have sidetracked the thread. :o

I see metallic cartridges being something left to the 20th century with the US and her allies when looking into my crystal ball for all of this.

Since we are nearly one-fifth of the way into the 21st century, and metallic cartridges are still preeminent, it looks like your crystal ball needs recalibration.