“The most important country to the United States is…” and a bit more (strategy and energy)

I started writing this as a comment on a post at Coming Anarchy, but it is a bit too long for that.   So in answer to their question…not really an answer but a steam of thoughts…   The USA long peaceful border with Canada makes it an important relationship. They are a no problem [...]

Bill Whittle Gets “It” – “This is a once-in-history idea” – Now what?

I came to this by Bill Whittle via a post by Zombie: In fact, in all of human history, there has been only one genuinely progressive, genuinely liberating idea: a lightning bolt across the pages of history – the why in 1776, the how in 1787 – the idea of limited government, god-given rights, personal [...]

(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. – 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. – In the NY Post: All the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements: Superb intelligence, ruthless [...]

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I originally made this comment on a Dreaming 5GW post by Adam Elkus: However, I see it as very rare—the entry costs to such an effort could only be met by someone extremely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 an almost supernatural level of intelligence. I suppose it would work best for a state security agency. I don’t really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The non-kinetic 5GW jihad against the US continues

My stalker might not want it to be public knowledge, but the non-kinetic 5GW Jihad against the US continues. Example 1: the Swift plant in Greeley, Colorado The Muslims will not compromise one bit, and will press their case under the “reasonable accommodation” provision, and will probably win, but their victory in part depends on [...]

“5GW Deception Operations And The Soviet Precedent”

Somehow I missed this great post by A.E. at Dreaming 5GW when it came out. In it he brings out lessons for 5GW from the Soviet experience: So what lessons can we take from the Soviet example? – 5GW operations on the operational level will consist of deception operations designed to sow confusion among the [...]

“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 [...]

Book Notes: John Poole’s Dragon Days: Time for “Unconventional” Tactics

John Poole‘s Dragon Days is mostly about 4GW and a little bit about what I call 5GW (aka SecretWar). The Interesting points to me where: – US light infantry should add criminal investigative techniques – US light infantry should all add real SERE capability so they don’t need 2GW-ish bombardment (with its 4GW blowback) if [...]

Briefly: Fifth Generation Warfare and Super-Empowered Individuals

Let me state for the record, that while I think SEIs (Super-Empowered Individuals) are a type of actor that can undertake 5GW: 5GWers do not need to be SEIs. SEIs can do more things then 5GW. There is some overlap in the thinking and the people doing the thinking on 5GW and SEI. They are [...]

Purpleslog on Covert Radio – Topic: “5th Generation Warfare – What does it all mean?”

My voice is disguised by a heavy cold, I talk way to fast (as I do in real life when excited), and I didn’t sleep much the night before, but none the less, an interview I gave on 5GW for Brett Winterble’s Covert Radio has been published. The time runs 18m40s. The interview covered the [...]

5GW Links – 9 May 2008

You may find these 5GW-related links to be interesting…