Dreaming 5GW

Although I have been largely absent for very nearly a year (last post was July 1, 2008) I have occasionally alternately marveled and cringed at whatever 5GW-related blog posts, here at D5GW and elsewhere, I have happened to read in that time.

Admittedly, with respect to the content I cringed more often than I marveled, when I wasn’t simply indifferent; but I did marvel at the expansion of the topic into new territories — blogs and authors new to me have been addressing the subject in new ways.  I eagerly await the publication of The Handbook of 5GW, which will include a handful of chapters written by people I had never known during my time blogging here and those years of 5GW discussion which occupied me before July 1, 2008.

In the last year, whenever “the blogging bug” would bite me (and this was a rarity), it was always an impulse to revisit the subject of 5GW via a dissemination of my own 5GW dream.  That is, certain cringe-worthy implications in the works of others on the subject produced in me a desire to write back, “But…!” or “Why is [X] being totally forgotten/ignored?”

Typically I would have a very strong desire to begin a list of “principles of 5GW” which I think are essential to any discussion of the fifth generation gradient of warfare.  In the last year, I fought the impulse and consoled my hurt daemon by shoring up a sense of curiosity:  “What is this thing happening to the theory of 5GW, as it spreads?”  It was a feeble consolation but it was enough.  Until now.

In no particular order, then, I will begin my list with my next post, to be followed by additional posts outlining what I think are the essential principles of 5GW without which the discussion of 5GW theory can only flounder.  I will return to edit this post with an outline and links to the others, as they are written.

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I. Introduction
II. Principles of 5GW:  Hands in the Field
III. Principles of 5GW:  Evolved EBO

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