5GW Theory Timeline

Dan tdaxp responds to a blog post published on Phatic Communion and further embellishes the idea that fifth generation war is “Secret War.”

• Economy of force improves with each succeeding generation of warfare; so 5GW targeting a society or culture will involve small 5GW forces able to defeat the larger societies or cultures.
• Contra CGW, these 5GW would not need to intellectually understand the targeted society in-depth, but rather will need great “fingertip feeling or ‘fingerspitzengefuhl’ “, or good implicit knowledge rather than explicit knowledge of the targeted society.
• An open society is naturally well-defended from a 5GW attack: transparency forces the Secret Warrior to operate in the open, which risks the secrecy of the 5GW attack.
• Contra CGW (?), merely influencing the most influential members of a society should be sufficient for a 5GW attack since “Universal buy-in has never been a prerequisite for power.” I.e., the dissenting voices of a small minority will be overlooked or, through transparency and general great openness, conspiracies and dissent will be laid to rest.
• Co-optation by SecretWarriors: “the President wouldn’t be a SecretWarrior, but he would be a tool of the SecretWarrior.”
• Operation Northwoods is referenced as a potential proto-5GW which would have purposely “created a majority will [CGW]”
• Contra CGW, small minorities such as the disenfranchised and sub-/counter-cultural elements are naturally dismissed, overlooked, their potential for warnings of 5GW attacks lost in the background noise, and thus secrecy will be maintained nonetheless: “Any real SecretWar attack met with warnings that are lost in the background noise is the same as a SecretWar without warning.”
• If “Secret Networks”, or those waging 5GW “latch on” to partisan groups, they would benefit from the disruption caused by the conflict between said partisan groups even while those groups also benefited from ratcheting up the partisan conflict; but, differently.

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