X vs X: Boom and the Generations in Conflict
Weeks, Curtis Gale. "X vs X: Boom and the Generations in Conflict." Dreaming 5GW. October 24, 2007. http://www.dreaming5gw.com/2007/10/x_vs_x_boom_and_the_generation.php (accessed September 7, 2009).
A post which looks at each generation in relationship to “Boom” or the operative kinetics occurring in each generational style of conflict.Additionally, each generation is compared to the generation before it and the generation after it, in order to show how, given a particular match-up, one generation will have the positional, proactive advantage over the prior generation which must react to that proactive generation’s kinetics, using this diagram:
On 2GW:
“2GW defeats 1GW because, 1) 2GW forces can advance at multiple points, with some autonomy for the individual units, and 2) massed artillery is quite capable of dispersing the kinetic attacks on the field of battle.”
On 3GW:
“3GW defeats 2GW because of much greater mobility, circumventing with pro-action the 2GW position of artillery and combat units (not only in space but also in time.)”
On 4GW:
“4GW defeats 3GW because of even more mobility: including even the option of moving among civilians or, indeed, among friendly forces. Additionally, 4GW begins to make better use of memetic engineering, or of altering observations to create kinetic responses in individuals thus oriented, kinetic responses possibly quite far from the 3GW force’s field of battle: another degree of dispersal of kinetics. The CoGs may include the morale of the population supporting the 3GW force; the CoGs may include destruction and murder within civilian populations, at any point civilians can be found.”
On 5GW:
“5GW defeats 4GW by refining memetic engineering, mulitplying domains to be shaped, and thus operating outside the scope of the 4GW observational range. Changes which occur within an agricultural sector in a far removed nation-state (or T.A.Z.) may ultimately lead to effects within the 4GW force’s acknowledged field of battle; etc. Indeed, the 4GW force’s concept of the field of battle may be altered.”
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