On Information

A Twitter “tweet” from @Selil earlier this evening roused a long-dormant post idea. Since Twitter is a “micro-blog”, its constraint of just 140 characters limits its utility to low-bandwidth, big-idea (or mundane-activity) broadcasting. Prof. Liles’s “big-idea” (in response to @mtanji…...
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GW Theory Cast Too High?

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the rich intellectual debate broiling this past month in the ‘blogosphere over the construct of the “generational” model of warfare: from D5GW host Curtis Gale Weeks to co-contributors tdaxp (several posts and more) & General of the…...
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5GW Attack on JFCOM?

Yesterday a good friend from Virginia sent me an article from “DataTech Government Newsletter” that harshly criticizes the Training Transformation program at U.S. Joint Forces Command (one of ten joint [all-service] Combatant Commands in the U.S. military).  Besides harshly maligning…...
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5GW in Clausewitz’s Trinity

Überblogger ZenPundit has summarized a ten-part series by Fabius Maximus from Defense and the National Interest.  Though only posted about two hours ago, ZenPundit’s post has already elicited feedback from FM, as well as myself and D5GW moderator Curtis Gale…...
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xGW Evolution: Purely Reactionary?

Are the generations of war purely a response to developments within the earlier generation? To wit, is (x plus 1)GW driven primarily by a desire to thwart practitioners of (x)GW? Consider this: 1GW: Marked by regimental structure and strict discipline…....
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