The Handbook of 5GW

The successful application of the Fifth Generation of Warfare (5GW) is " indistinguishable from magic" (Rees , following in the spirit of Clarke's Law, .
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Think of it like the difference between an Atari and an Xbox I know, I tried.

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I know I wrote it. When you go to a magic show, a good magician will mess with your Observation. Happily, their purpose is mainly to entertain, though they have been known to turn their talents to other purposes See: The thing is we want to believe in ourselves and our own abilities to think and act. Ok, you caught me. So why do we keep calling it that? The lower the gradient a doctrine fits into, the more it will rely on the use of kinetic force, and the less it uses non-kinetic force.

Likewise, the higher the gradient the less kinetic force, the more non-kinetic force.

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That makes 5GW very non-kinetic. One really good example, though, is insurgency and counterinsurgency. Classic guerilla insurgency is generally thought to fall into the fourth gradient or 4GW. Counterinsurgency, in general, falls into the fifth gradient.

Daniel H. Abbott (Author of The Handbook of 5GW)

Insurgency is, on the whole, more kinetic than counterinsurgency. As such, there is much more of a reliance on threat, intimidation and force to effect a population. Counterinsurgency, on the other hand, is kinetic only as a last resort. Its weapons are cups of chai, relationships, jobs, soccer balls, electricity, security.

Often times, the last thing you would want to do is pull a trigger, or kick down a door, though, in the interests of security that may occur. I hope this in some way helps. Really, you should read the Handbook. My view is but one of many and the Handbook is chock full of really, really smart people writing about something that is really interesting in its implications from all sorts of points of view.

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First of all, the term 5GW. Why bother trying to understand 5GW? This handbook attempts to provide systematic answers to these questions in several major sections, each of which is written by many contributors.

The Handbook of 5GW: Dedication and Epigraph Submitted

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