The troops that came to my city (Shreveport) to train came from a base that already had some of the best urban combat training facilities in the country. They came and set up "surveillance" in several neighborhoods here, and they've done so in something like 150 cities across the country.

The only way we found out about it, was that on the last day of exercises, a soldier got killed trying to "commandeer" a civillian vehicle in exercises in another state. The local paper finally reported that this had been going on here, but only after the last day and only in its print editions.

I think they're not looking for something that "simulates" the battlefield of tomorrow, because they already have that. They're doing advance reconnaissance on the actual battlefields of tomorrow.