5GW as the Event Horizon
Dan tdaxp links to a comment under a blog post at Skilluminati Research in which the commenter ponders the way fifth generation warfare will be a blending of warfare with “everything else”:
I agree 100% that 5GW is an event horizon for warfare theory—it’s where war merges with everything else, where things become so radically different that the old theory is more of a hinderance than a help. (Thirtyseven commenting at Skilluminati Research)
Seizing upon the idea that 5GW will be an “event horizon for warfare theory”, Dan tdaxp agrees, “with one change: 5GW is the event horizon, beyond which the xGW framework breaks down as violence is dispersed and action indirect enough that the study of war becomes the study of politics.”
A lively discussion ensues, during which William Lind’s “generations of modern warfare” (GMW) — an important precursor to study of 5GW — is distinguished from “xGW”, to which 5GW belongs. 0GW - 5GW are more properly seen to exist through the framework of xGW than through Lind’s GMW.
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