Effective 5GW against a state or organization will consists of lots of little operations by the small 5GW actor effecting the larger target actor in such small ways they don’t notice until there is nothing they can do to counter the outcome.
This was the only frogtastic picture from Flickr I could find (I felt the post needed an illustration):
(Originally uploaded to Flickr by magnolia83912)
Update: This is a better graphic.
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[...] Boiling the Frog, 5GW style [...]
[...] 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/) [...]
[...] I think I sense the beginning of the fourth civil war – a 5GW Civil War. The institutions of the nations are being slowly subverted (Boiling the Frog style) to call for the rejection of the American Nation's DNA from which it originated. The "other side" is both sub-national and "trans-national". It is purpose-driven with long time-frames. It uses the institutions of the US against the US. [...]
[...] Make small steps that can avoid notice, not big moves [...]
[...] Each of these were necessary to get the financial and military muscle to create a muscular Empire of Liberty, financed at non-junk rates. However, what was needed was a crisis, real if possible but manufactured if necessary. Daniel Shays helpfully provided the crisis. The Federalist’s were able to get themselves appointed to a convention to help revise the Articles of Confederation but used the occasion to launch a slow motion coup d’etat against the states. This is a classic example of the frog boiling slowly. [...]
[...] Small step by small step over a long period of time [...]
I guess I should have been clearer and just called this incremental-ism.