Kent’s Imperative writes about The Wizards War and a possible type of 5GW.

First the Cause:

Wretchard in particular applies an apt name: the Wizard War. This captures, in succinct form, the alienation the typical man on the street might feel in the event of such a war. To be sure, Everyman knows all about the interwebs, and the tubes, and the magic motion picture music box thing that exists to feed their iPods and cameraphones. But the technical understanding of higher level cyber environment dependencies exists at about the same level of comforting abstraction (the legions of Slashdot and the rest of the technical blogsphere aside.) So when more than one banks computers go down, and the panic begins to set in, Everyman will be facing a shattering of illusions for which he is mentally unprepared. The loss of confidence will have a far greater effect than any mere temporary disruption, however mass.

Then the possible 5GW opening:

It is in the layers of these abstractions that 5th generation warfare (5GW) lurks and hides. Trying to unpack the complexity of the issues involved in facing a concerted series of attacks against what is our collective hallucination of cyberspace (in Gibson’s terms) begins to take on the character of a Jesuit debating society.

I called something similar to this “hiding among the crazies”. It is Analysis Paralysis as 5GW opening. It is learned helplessness as 5GW opening. It is forced alienation (well hello again Uncle Karl) as 5GW vector into the mind.

[Cross posted to Dreaming 5GW]