Recent Entries in Comment (electronic)
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Comment: The Generations of War in the Context of Realms and Kinetics
In a comment under the blog post "The Generations of War in the Context of Realms and Kinetics," written by Dan Abbott and cross-posted on the blog Dreaming 5GW (originally titled "Orientation and Action, Part II: The OODA-PISRR Loop" as...
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Comment: War Doesn't Work
A comment left under a blog post at the blog The Useless Tree, "War Doesn't Work", in which the blog author, Sam Crane, points out that U.S. and Israeli styles of fighting are no longer effective against certain foes. The...
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Comment: 5GW
In a comment at the blog Coming Anarchy, Curtis Gale Weeks links early consideration of a possible 5GW theory of warfare with the book Unrestricted Warfare....
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Truly Formless 5GW: Comment
A description of xGW is offered which stresses the viability of each succeeding generation of war with respect to prior generations: Every generation of war is a qualitative shift. One way of thinking that is that it allows an opponent...
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Truly Formless 5GW: Comment
Responding to various other comments, and particularly considering comments left by Arherring and Dan tdaxp, Curtis Gale Weeks suggests the necessity of reconsidering 5GW from a "nuts and bolts" perspective:Dan's broad characterization of the effectiveness of 5GW forces who are...
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Truly Formless 5GW: Comment
John Robb, responding to a comment left by Arherring that states might use 5GW to combat 4GW networks -- through the use of viral memes? -- offers an alternative interpretation: fifth-generation warriors, called here by John Robb "GG's" ("global guerrillas"),...
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Truly Formless 5GW: Comment
From the idea that each successive generation within the xGW framework is developed to respond to, and to defeat, the previous generation, Arherring considers the possibility that by definition wouldn't 5GW be the next logical step for a National /...
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Limitations of 5GW: Comment
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...
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Limitations of 5GW: Comment
Alan Sullivan suggests that 9/11 fits the prevailing description of fifth generation war. Some responses to the attack on the WTC, vis-a-vis the airline industry, were horribly bad and in fact hurt the U.S. Furthermore, such knee-jerk reactions solidified al-Qaeda's...
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Dreaming 5th Generation War: Comment
Curtis Gale Weeks comments on the post "Dreaming 5th Generation War" published by Dan tdaxp on the blog tdaxp.The comment ponders "a scenario in which multiple, seemingly unrelated events hurt one nation (or a group of nations) repeatedly, as if...
