Dreaming 5GW

Fabius discussed militias in terms of 4GW defense. His post is well done, and is I think about as far as GMW (generations of modern war theory) goes. I expanded on it using xGW concepts. Thus, a good example of how xGW expands & improves on GMW:

xGW is a more useful theory than GMW, and explains the generations (better called “gradients“) of war in terms of the dispersal of kinetic violence through society. Each gradient disperses kinetic violence through the society more than the gradient before it, so that 4GW is more dispersed than 3GW, and so on. This allows each “higher” Gradient of War to be won with fewer armed troops than the one below it.

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