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 [...]

“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.

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 [...]

Book Notes – “War Nerd by Gary Brecher”

I finished reading “War Nerd” which is collection/bookification (yeah I made up the word) of Gray Brecher’s “War Nerd” web column.
The author is annoying, smug, and geeky.
I quite enjoyed the book. You should buy it. If you start reading it, keep reading.
It is a very readable analysis region-by-region of what is referred to in XGW [...]

“Unrestricted Warfare” (URW) and XGW / 4GW / 5GW

I have been meaning to write this for awhile. Zenpundit’s mention of “Unrestricted Warfare” and 4GW/5GW got me to type it:
The ideas from URW haven’t quite made there way into 4GW/5GW…there is a lot of richness in the its ideas. There is more in URW then is in Lind’s 4GW. So, does that make URW [...]

Capturing My Thoughts: XGW, Coming Anarchy, Boyd, and Categories of Conflict

CA states:
These categories provided the basis for Lind’s later work on 4GW. The
advantage to Boyd’s categories is the ahistorical aspect — there is no
chain of causality.
Here are the categories:

Attrition Warfare
— as practiced by the Emperor Napoleon, by all sides during the 19th
century and during World War I, by the Allies during World War II, and
by [...]

Is the 0GW part of the XGW Wrong? [Update]

Should 0GW be dropped from XGW?
- Is 0GW just 1GW…but seen through a lens of primitive technologies and societies?
- Are some parts of 0GW really just 4GW…but once again through a lens of primitive technologies and societies?
- Are some parts of of 0GW really 2GW, without the industrial base but with the mobilization of the [...]

Graphic/Mapping: XGW – Kinetics vs. Domain [Update]

Here is a graphic of the the grid I settled upon for showing how the XGW category framework differs on kinetics vs simple domains (military and/or Society).

I was trying to do something that wasn’t linear.
Update: The subscript for K stands for High. Medium, Low,
Update: Here is the shorthand for different modes in XGW:
- 0GW is [...]

Working Definition v0.1 – “Strategic Citizen” [Update]

How is this for a definition of Strategic Citizen:
Ordinary individuals and/or Super-Empowered Individuals who
successfully make use of any of the technological, socio, economic, or political domains to have a strategic impact on the world.
Any comments? Suggestions? Corrections? Alternatives?
Update – Phil writes:
I think that the key to the strategic citizen idea is that we citizens no [...]

What should 0GW be called? [Updated]

Keeping with a theme, What should 0GW be called?
The other conflict modes of the xGW have nice short reference names:
- 1GW is [TBD]
- 2GW is Attrition Warfare
- 3GW is Maneuver Warfare
- 4GW is [Well, that is another post]
- 5GW is Secret War
So, what should 0GW be called?
- Genocidal Warfare?
- Unorganized Warfare?
- Primitive Warfare?
- Barbarian [...]

What should 1GW (First Generation Warfare) be called? [Update]

What should 1GW (First Generation Warfare) be called?
The other conflict modes of the xGW have nice short reference names:
- 2GW is Attrition Warfare
- 3GW is Maneuver Warfare
- 4GW is [Well, that is another post]
- 5GW is Secret War
So, what is 1GW?
- Linear Warfare?
- Basic Warfare?
- Organized Warfare?
- Simple Warfare?
Any suggestions?
Update: I am going with:
- 1GW [...]

Is This a 0GW Example?

From the New Yorker:
The war between the Handa clan and the Ombal clan began many years ago; how many, Daniel didn’t say, and perhaps didn’t know. It could easily have been several decades ago, or even in an earlier generation. Among Highland clans, each killing demands a revenge killing, so that a war goes on [...]

So I have been going through that “War Studies” PDF…[Update]

…so far it is interesting – I am at slide 660.
BTW, I don’t remember where I got the link from…so if I got it from you let me know!
Update: I am finished. The first half was better then the second. No 5GW mention of course. I would have liked a little more on 4GW and [...]

Actors Types For Conflict and Global Relations

Note: This is a revamps of an earlier post and is in preparation for a new post
All Global Actors are Networks (aka relationships sets) of humans:
SBN state-based network – states or super-state organizations
KBN Kin-based network – people driven by familiar or tribal ties
SEI super empowered individuals or networks of super empowered individuals
MBN meme-based network – [...]

Book Notes – “The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People” by Jonathan Schell

I bought this book about 2 years ago, but I just recently got around to reading it after some recent related posts.
So I read through the book with those posts in mind, along with looking for 5GW ideas and xGW ideas in general.
My notes:

The book of course doesn’t use terminology like 4GW and 5GW, [...]

Capturing My Thoughts 3: “The weaponization of things not thought to be weapons…”

From here:
4GW and 5GW move beyond traditional weapons. It is about the importance of the non-kinetic (aka dispersed kinetics)
5GW is dispersed kinetics to a greater degree and manipulation of things (e.g. SBNs, KBNs, SEIs, PDNs, MBNs) to achieve result desired by the 5GW actors. The weaponization of things not thought to be weapons leaves [...]

Capturing My Thoughts 2: Global Actors

From here:
Notice I say actors. I assume while states are (and will continue to be
actors) that other actors can be involved: Kin-based networks aka KBN
(people driven by familiar or tribal ties), super empowered individuals
aka SEI(or networks of SEIs), meme-based networks aka MBN(people driven
by shared beliefs such as religion, culture, political ideology),
purpose-driven networks aka PDN(e.g. business [...]

Capturing My Thoughts 1: Defining xGW Without Historical Mappings

From here:
I think of each xGW “generation” as a conflict mode to be used given the nature/intentions/capabilities of competing/cooperating actors and whatever is the state of the world at that particular time and place. Globalization is just making it so that now the place for our current particular time is the entire earth for the [...]