Purpleslog is the pseudonym of a US Citizen living in Milwaukee Wisconsin working as a private-sector network/security engineer. Though he doesn’t blog about them all equally, he has interests in IT, information security, CyberWar, national security, fifth generation/gradient warfare (5GW), history, public policy, entrepreneurship, economics, pop culture and the future. Academically, he has a BS in Computer Science and an MBA.
He originally came to explore 5GW in response to the 9/11/2001 attacks and his interest in finding something other then just more 4GW to counter-4GW. He also blogs at the group blog Dreaming 5GW which is centered on 5GW theory which he defines as:
5GW is the secret deliberative manipulation of actors, networks, institutions, states or any 0GW/1GW/2GW/3GW/4GW forces to achieve a goal or set of goals across a combination of socio, economic, and political domains while attempting to avoid or minimize the retaliatory offensive or defensive actions/reactions of 0GW/1GW/2GW/3GW/4GW powered actors, networks, institutions, and/or states.
He has outlined his views briefly here. He is just a middle class working Information Technology Infrastructure Geek Professional and a blogger without any secret or invisible sources at his disposal.
He finds it weird to write about himself in the third person.
Che won’t be dead until we dig his corpse back up, stick him on a nuke, and explode him over a concentration camp full of nothing but AQ and Iranian jihadists.