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5GW Theory Lexicon
The 5GW Lexicon is located at http://dreaming5gw.com/5gw_lexicon/ -- It's a work in progress, freshly inaugurated, and in need of suggestions (primarily: terminology & definitions.)Visitors can now leave suggestions for revision on a per-entry basis by clicking from the main page...
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Winning Without Fighting
Luke of the blog The Balance of Terror summarizes the concept of 5GW found within The Handbook of 5GW :The entire premise of the 'Handbook strikes me as sound: namely, that there is such a thing as a fifth gradient of warfare...
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Mark Safranski Goes Into the Heart of Darkness
Mark Safranski's essay "5GW: Into the Heart of Darkness", from The Handbook of 5GW, is included in the "Examples of 5GW" section of that book. In the essay, Safranski first examines the role of the state in our present day,...
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Arherring on COIN and xGW
Arherring takes a look at "The Cognitive Dissonance of COIN: Right Doctrine, Wrong War ," by Jason Thomas at Small Wars Journal. That article points out the inadequacies of COIN as it has been practiced in Afghanistan while also suggesting...
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Manipulating Observation
Via Danger Room: Insurgents Intercept Drone Video in King-Size Security Breach The 5GWish money quote: If you think militants are going to be content to just observe spy drone feeds, it’s time to reconsider. “Folks are not merely going to...
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OST + EBOv2 + Engaging Emergence, Pt. 2
OSTIn my last post, I explored the idea of EBOv2 after having introduced it as one of the key "principles" of 5GW. I suggested three interrelating limitations or "stumbling-blocks" to conducting the more expansive and inclusive form of EBO,...
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OST + EBOv2 + Engaging Emergence
EBOv2 Previously in writing about EBOv2 (or, "Evolved EBO" as I quickly labeled it then), I noted that effects-based operations should be expanded to include two areas of observation when determining operations:In general “effects-based” has two components: “It is thus...
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Engaging Emergence
Watch Engaging Emergence in Educational & How-To | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comPeggy Holman, co-author of The Change Handbook, discusses "Engaging Emergence". (Be aware there is a 30-sec commercial at the beginning of this video, and then again 1/3 and...
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Principles of 5GW: Evolved EBO
(This is part of a series of posts exploring what I consider to be the essential principles of 5GW.)Preliminary: EBO?Writing in Effects-based operations: A New Operational Model?1, April 2002, then-LTC Allen Batschelet examined three differing concepts of EBO currently...
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Social OODA Loop
[This is primarily a "remember me" post I'm using to collect some old OODA work-ups (from posts that might no longer be available), for future thought/blogging; additionally, a simplification of previous posts.]First, a thank-you to Joseph Fouche of The Committee...
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Analysis Paralysis
Over-analysis of any event, situation, or plan of action which prevents the possibility of forward movement is said to lead to analysis paralysis.The term has been applied to 5GW theory to describe how targets of 5GW may react to the...
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Effector
A term originally used by Curtis Gale Weeks to designate those actors who initially plan and put into motion any 5GW campaign; or, in any case, those who are aware of the 5GW being conducted, including its scope and ultimate...
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Iterative Model, The
If the 5GW effector is confronted with a goal that is broad in scope, with requirements that aren’t fully known or understood and may, in fact, be subject to change, then the Waterfall model is unlikely to be as...
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Waterfall Model, The
But just as being “fast” is more important than being completely “right” in maneuver war, being secret is more important than being completely “right” in 5GW.5th Generation Wars will be created with Waterfall Development. We can see what 5GWs will...
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Rubicon
Historically, the river Rubicon represented a border between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south. Governors of Cisalpine Gaul were also generals able to command troops through the legal right of imperium...
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Consilient Effects
Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW): An emergent theory of warfare premised upon manipulation of multiple economic, political, social and military forces in multiple domains to effect positional changes in systems and achieve a consilience of effects to leverage a specific goal...
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Consilience
A term popularized by the sociobiologist E. O. Wilson1 but apparently first coined by William Whewel in his studies on the history of science, consilience has come to describe the way in which different academic disciplines or scientific disciplines interrelate...
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Resilience
A term utilized to describe the ability of a system or organization capable of adapting to, and surviving, events and/or attacks that would otherwise be catastrophic.Generally speaking, resilience often describes the ability of those systems or groups to maintain a...
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GG
The acronym for Global Guerrillas. See: Global Guerrillas....
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Global Guerrillas
A term first coined by John Robb to describe the global emergence of autonomous warrior-groups capable of organizing and operating through horizontal means and eschewing exterior vertical controls. The existence of "black globalization" characterized by widespread black markets, "open-source platforms"...
