I have pasted a small excerpt below:
I am so disturbed by the remarks of Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) regarding the Haditha incident ["Death Toll Rises in Haditha Attack, GOP Leader Says," news story, May 20]. Mr. Murtha said, "Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood."
In the United States, we have a civil and military court system that relies on an investigatory and judicial process to make determinations based on evidence. The system is not served by such grand pronouncements of horror and guilt without the accuser even having read the investigative report.
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Due to the strategy and tactics employed by our enemies in this 4GW type of conflict, Murtha's reactions could be construed as giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war.
I will quote John Robb on what it will take to win this war, and you decide for yourself whether or not Murtha's words contribute to the opposite:
Winning a 4GW conflictVictory in 4GW warfare is won in the moral sphere. The aim of 4GW is to destroy the moral bonds that allows the organic whole to exist -- cohesion. This is done by reinforcing the following (according to Boyd):
Menace. Attacks that undermine or threaten basic human survival instincts.
Mistrust. Increases divisions between groups (ie. conservatives and liberals in the US).
Uncertainty. Undermine economic activity by decreasing confidence in the future.
Is it just me, or does it seem the closer we get to victory, the more unhinged progressives and their lapdogs get?
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What? When did 5GW get invented?!?
Smells like Victory to me!!! [response to Anonymous post at 9.51am]
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umm "the closer we get to victory"... what have you won exactly? Hundreds of thousands of people are dead, that isn't a victory. Terrorist activity has increased as a result of the Iraq invasion - no victory here either. Now, the possibility of Marines commiting war crimes? No victory in the hearts & minds of those who you are alledging to liberate either. This invasion has no winners.
I guess you haven't followed the copious links I placed throughout the post. They are there for a reason.
World War IV will take this generation, and maybe the next, to win. The alternative is to allow these vermin to spread around our planet until we are faced with a decision:
Become Dhimmis to be eventually be converted, or fight until we can fight no more.
Watch this video if you want to see who we are fighting against!
Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) is a new and evolving concept. Some would say it doesn’t exists, or it just 4GW misunderstood or applied in a new / different / expected way. William Lind, one of the fathers of 4GW and the Generations of Modern War framework, does not think 5GW is emerging yet (http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_2_03_04.htm ).
I think 5GW is a logical addition to the Generations of Modern Warfare (xGW) framework.
There is much discussion still as to the characteristics of 5GW – there is no definitive statement or definition.
Where 3GW is Maneuver Warfare (or Lightening Warfare) and 4GW is Netwar, 5GW is Secret War.
Secret War (5GW) is performed by super-empowered individuals and very small dispersed networks. It is possible that a 5GW groups will be the result of emergent/leaderless behavior. The 5GW group is separate from the state (and perhaps not known to the state or its leaders), SecretWar will be waged on the behalf of the state or an idea/Meme(s) or the small 5GW group itself. The fifth generation rides on the trend of the state loosing the monopoly of power.
Blogger TDAXP mapped the Generations of Modern War to the OODA Loop. (Here is my flick graphic version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/purpleslog/156106514/). Fifth Generation Warfare attacks the Observation part of the OODA – it aims at the intelligence of the enemy.
I think 5GW will be heavy on the infiltration and redirection of state and institutions and non-state network, and 4GW movements.
Direct Action in 5GW would be limited to the manipulation/redirection of 4GW groups, and small “it looked liked an accident or infighting” assassinations on future-leaders or existing important (to the opposition) human network nodes.
5GW should be able to use at least 1 magnitude less human resources to accomplish the same things as 4GW.
SecretWar requires well, secrecy to be successful. Since knowledge of the 5GW will often resemble weird conspiracy theories, 5GW practitioners will use that to there advantages to discredit and marginalize those that might be starting to recognize the 5GW movement. Most societies will by default consider weak evidence of 5GW as non-sense or wacko/crazy conspiracy thought and dismiss it.
Time-spans for 5GW war may be longer then that of 4GW wars. This is still being discussed.
I think the 5GW planning phase will be long, but 5GW tactical operations will be small, have short timespans, and be numerous (to avoid detection). I call this boiling the frog 5GW-style (http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/05/22/boiling-the-frog-5gw-style/)
Zenpundit puts it best: “5GW is conceived in terms of strategic vision over an even longer time frame [referring to 4GW], sometimes before an opponent realizes that they will be an opponent but the execution time may be very short in comparison to 4GW. The operative question is probably whether the attacker or the defender has initiated 5GW - once you are already attacked you have missed your opportunity to shape the battlespace.”
There might even be high-tech versions of 5GW where future technology (like nano-technology) will allow the super-empowered individual the ability to accomplish massive things on his own. ( example: http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/05/unto_the_next_g.php )
Examples of Possible 5GW
Control and redirect the activity of a 4GW group for a separate purpose
(http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/05/13/5gw-example-is-answer-trying-to-get-a-chavez-friendly-candidate-elected-in-mexico/ )
Infiltrate the cultural and learning institutions of an enemy over time to change the enemy’s future generations.
(http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/cultural-institution-infiltration-5gw-technique-with-example/ )
Assassination of potential future leaders of an opponent or key current network nodes. The assassinations will not look like outsider assassination: e.g. car accidents, drug overdoses, mugging gone bad, heart attacks, in-fighting/civil war
Lastly, 5GW is not John Robb’s Global Guerrillas (GG) concept. GG does not quite fit into the xGW framework. GG seems to use the tactics of Netwar, but concentrates on disrupting the complex systems of modern societies to: distract/disrupt the state, collapse part or some of the state, and create ungoverned spaces which can then be used by the GG patrons for some other ends (the GG are not modern high anarchists) At last, this is how I understand the GG concept right now. I await his book and the months of blogger postings that will appear afterwards on the concept.
Blog Reference:
http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/07/18/go-deep-ooda-and-the-rainbow-of-generational-warfare.html
http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/02/04/5gw-soundless-formless-polished-leading.html
http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2006/03/10/truly-formless-5gw/
http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=894
http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/05/unto_the_next_g.php
http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/03/initiating_5gw.php
http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2005/08/limitations_of.php
http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2005/07/5gw_effectors.php
http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/02/emergence_and_w_1.php
http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/2005/07/unto-fifth-generation-of-war.html
http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/2005/07/fifth-generation-war-in-ooda-loop-dan.html
http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/update-to-my-post-on-unrestricted-warfare-additions-and-sorting/
http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/tag/5gw/
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2006/02/emergent_intell.html
Wow!
Thank You for the information, t will keep me busy for a while. I also commented on 5GW over at Thunder Pig Journal and will keep trying to take this stuff in, for it would mean a tremendous paradigm shift into, for me at least, an unknown country.
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