Limitations of 5GW

Weeks, Curtis Gale. "Limitations of 5GW." Dreaming 5GW. August 2, 2005. http://www.dreaming5gw.com/2006/10/limitations_of_5gw.php (accessed August 31, 2007).

(Originally appeared on the defunct blog Phatic Communion, republished at the blog Dreaming 5GW.)


A blog post that considers fifth generation war waged against whole societies:  what features should be considered?

Conclusion:

  1. The 5GW attacker would “need to influence the majority and the leaders of that majority, or indeed create a majority will”; but
  2. “the oddball [disenfranchised] elements of a society are more likely to be sensitive to changes in the majority opinion than those who hold the majority opinion” and are therefore quite likely to realize something is occurring.
Early introduction of the idea of “canaries in the mine” during fifth generation war:  oddball or disenfranchised elements within a society may act as signals that a 5GW is occurring.

Moreover: Those odd elements within a society might raise a defense against the 5GW attacker, but their defensive efforts may therefore seem to target the dominant elements of a society which have been influenced or co-opted by the 5GW attacker. The dominant elements, blind to the 5GW, may only see that they are being attacked by members of their own society; thus civil war may ensue — or is it possible that a main operation of 5GW that targets a whole society would be the instigation of civil war within that targeted society?




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