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Mark Safranski utilizes a consideration of anti-state 5GW goals suggested by Myke Cole at Small Wars Journal, in “Comic Book Warning: An Unlikely Insight into Warfare’s 5th Generation”, to draw a potential response to 5GW by states beset by internal 5GW (or 4GW) opponents.

Excerpt:

I can foresee an exceedingly grim response by States where the ruling elite retains the will to power to contest their destruction.

Confronted with persistently successful 4GW/5GW actors - particularly those on the loose end of the organizational spectrum such as virtual cells or a cell organized around a superempowered individual - a major state power will inevitably go the route of setting up a small off-the books clandestine unit - essentially a death squad without the psychopathology - and begin quietly disappearing people based upon probabilistic estimates.

[Note:  Mark Safranksi would later expand this idea in The Handbook of 5GW, 2010, in “Into the Heart of Darkness.”]

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