Watching V (spoilers)

Spoilers to follow…

(old found draft post)Historical 5GW Example: The Anti-Nixon 5GW-ish Coup

Dec 31, 2008 @ 15:53
I should still write this up more fully, if I have time to get into it. The revelation was pretty shocking and way under-reported.
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http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-fbis-men.html
http://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/deep-throats-coup-detat/
http://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/the-deep-throat-dilemma/
http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-using-the-stenographer-as-their-agent-actively-spied-on-the-civilian-command-during-the-vietnam-war/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Mark_Felt

(old found draft post) Ralph Peters: “the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements”

Dec 4, 2008 @ 10:17
I am not sure why I didn’t post it. I guess I didn’t feel like going to how to do a counter-terror/counter-4GW 5GW. I should come back to this idea.
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In the NY Post:
All the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements: Superb intelligence, ruthless determination and tremendous patience.
Intelligence [...]

Capturing My Thoughts: More on the 5GW Puppetmaster

I originally made this comment on a Dreaming 5GW post by Adam Elkus:

However, I see it as very rare—the entry costs to such an effort could only be met by someone extremely wealthy, with [...]

Capturing Thoughts: 5GW Analysis Paralysis

I don’t want to have to google for these notes again…
From http://shloky.com/?p=762#comment-33197 :
Shloky is correct to point out that there is a danger in seeing patterns or conspiracies where there are none and drawing conclusions that some secret puppet master is pulling strings. That way can lead to madness or Analysis Paralysis.
ARHERRING on  CGW’s old [...]

5GW Operation Notes: Who What Where When Why How

Here some notes to help me clarify my own thinking. The notes may be useful to others as well.
As always, I appreciate any comments, questions, corrections, additions…feedback of any sort.
5GW DEFINITION
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 [...]

I like this 5GW Definition Tweet

5GW is like boiling a frog slowly in a crowd. The frog doesn’t notice until it is too late & nobody in the crowd sees the subtle chef. [Source - Purpleslog on Twitter]

5GW Thinking Snippet from Nikita Khrushchev

From the The Wednesday Report:
Nikita Khrushchev once said, “We cannot expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism until they awaken one day to find they have Communism”.
That sounds familiar.

“What will be a great surprise to the American people is that the GRU and KGB had a larger budget for antiwar propaganda in the United States that it did for economic and military support of the Vietnamese”

A great example in Influence Warfare (and it is 5GW-ish too) from USNAVYVET2002:

The GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad. Funding was provided via undercover operatives or front organizations. These would fund another group that in turn would fund student organizations. The GRU also [...]

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairwoman Feinstein has a big mouth

Jeez:

At a hearing, Feinstein expressed surprise over Pakistani opposition to the campaign of Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Islamic extremist targets along Pakistan’s northwestern border.
“As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base,” she said.
The basing of the pilotless aircraft in Pakistan suggests a much deeper relationship with the United States on [...]

“Weaponize Western Culture”

I liked the turn of phrase “Weaponize western culture” that I heard earlier this morning on the 1/26/2008 Covert Radio Podcast. The context (from the accompanying blog entry) was Influence Warfare:
Best stories of the day–Taliban talk radio–used to intimidate and mark for death their enemies…can we not jam it? Can we not counter program  it?? [...]

“We Are 5GW”

This comment from Shloky (and Lexington Green’s reply) had me laughing in a good way.
Funny turn of phrase aside, there is a nugget of wisdom regarding what may have been the true value of the GMW.

Recent Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) Stuff on the Internet

TDAXP is taking the lead with a souvenir edition of the Dreaming 5GW PoV on 5GW theory by calling for chapter ideas and submissions for a 5GW Book. This is a great idea (and overdue). I hope CGW can be coaxed into participating. MY suggestions are here.
Glenn Anderson has a posting on Making Meme Stick [...]

Draft – Shadows of 5GW: The Default American PoV has become a Leftist POV

I started writing this back some time. I wrote out the rest of on a legal pad in long hand which I can not f*cking find at the moment! Since Seerov, is heading into this area, I want to publish what I have so far. I will re-write the rest shortly.
So here it is so [...]

My Suggestion for chapters for Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) book

TDAXP is calling for chapter ideas and submissions for a 5GW Book (a souvenir edition) of the Dreaming 5GW PoV on Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) theory .
Here are my suggestions for an overview:

Forward by TBD
What is Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW): Our Point of View (PoV)
The Genesis of this PoV
XGW, not Lind’s GMW
Properties of 5GW
Visualizing XGW
Actors [...]

“Shari`ah finance is a new weapon in the arsenal of what might be termed fifth-generation warfare (5GW)”

So say Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen in Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency; Edited by Jeffrey Norwitz; US Naval War College,June 2008, chapter 28.
They write:
Shari`ah finance is a new weapon in the arsenal of what might be termed fifth-generationwarfare (5GW).2 The perpetrators include both states and organizations, advancing a global [...]

These “industries” are need of entrepreneurs with radical innovations

Just a few stray thoughts…
Housing – 30% of income for Housing? Jeez.
Personal Transportation – Where is my $5k car?
K12 Education – Too much money, too little results, little customization, wasted human and material capital. There has to be better ways.
Post-K12 Education – Cost are out of control, benefits are overstated. There has to be better [...]

Recent 5GW related links of (maybe) interest

Soob’s – “The Ultimate 5GW? Holding a Foreign Economy Under the Knife by Manipulating the Resource Demand of our Own”
Mountain Runner’s “The Spectrum of War and Peace and the Role of Public Diplomacy”
“Where Are the Shadowy Criminal Masterminds?“
Citizen Warrior’s “The Terrifying Brilliance of the Islamic Memeplex“
PDF: Mind War
Volconvo’s “Search Term: Fifth Generation Warfare”
“William Ayers’ forgotten [...]

“He is a unifying force between Democrats, Greens, Socialists and Communists”

The press should be doing this, but since they seem to be in the tank for Obama or more concerned with taking down Joe the Plumber, it has fallen on bloggers to research his past.
Obama claims he has no connection of any substance.
Things like this are red flags: “Ayers, Obama, and Klonsky, the former head [...]

The Weatherman: “they estimated that they’d have to eliminate 25 million people in these re‑education centers…”

Read about it here at Dr. Sanity.
Some “fun” parts:
Most of the people that had no prior experience, let’s say the average Weatherman, if there is such a thing, they were sent to Cuba for training in Cuba.[...]Grathwohl: I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government. You know, [...]

Some stray 5GW thought

I know I said I wasn’t going to do any 5GW blogging for awhile, but some thoughts came whispering from within, and  I want to write them down.
5GW will be (can be) War disguised as Politics.
5GW will be (can be) War disguised as Social Work (Social Development).
5GW will be (can be) War disguised as Entrepreneurship.
What [...]

Why have I not been doing any 5GW blogging?

I haven’t given up on the theory and ideas of 5GW.
I have just been doing and blogging about other things. I have also been distracted by the election, my career, and the economy.
I have a couple near 5GW-ish post I’d like to write up (an d transfer from note pads). Also, I have list of [...]

Found Buried Draft Post from April 2007: “Entrepreneurial Public Diplomacy” as 5GW

Phil writes a comment at Mountain Runner on public diplomacy that is very interesting:
We are all aware of how non-state actors like al-Qaeda and Hezbollah can run more effective PD operations than the most advanced states. There is a lesson in this. The solution to our PD problem will not come from government, rather it [...]

Mutually Exclusive Paths to Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) Success

I have been working up a Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) [1] scenario in response to a question by Seerov on Dreaming 5GW.
As a side effect, I have come to have to see that regardless of which combination of 5GW style [2] and of which 5GW kind [3] is used, that I think there are [...]

Caturing My Thoughts: How could Demographic warfare be used with 5GW?

I wrote this at D5GW:
Here’s one way:
The 5GW actor (perhaps a group with-in the state bureaucracy [1]) would create and support policies and institutions that create mechanisms and incentives for the subtle long-term movement of demographically targeted types of people (the Prawns [2] [3]).
The goal of the 5GWers is not the movement of the people [...]