Limitations of 5GW: Comment

Weeks, Curtis Gale. "Hello Alan. I’ve been trying to put my finger on the 5GW aspects of al-Qaeda activity...." Phatic Communion. August 3, 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20051016215712/http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2005/08/limitations_of.php#c287 (accessed August 31, 2007).
Curtis Gale Weeks responds to a comment left by Alan Sullivan, who suggested that 9/11 fits the description of a fifth-generation attack:

The present insurgency in Iraq, the followup bombings in Madrid and London, the bombings in Egypt (and the abduction of foreign diplomats in Iraq) have the hallmark of a 4GW war: the effort to sap the will of the targeted enemy. In Madrid, al-Qaeda succeeded.

9/11 was something else, since it really initiated so many present countermoves by America, rather than sap America’s will. Most of America didn’t realize we were fighting jihadists until 9/11.


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