On the Super Empowered Individual

(I originally posted this at Soob and thought it too generally interrogative and bit meandering for D5GW. A session in thinking aloud, perhaps. And then got to thinking D5GW is a long discussion of theory and theory involves uncertainty and…...
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Cyber-Jihad meets…Civil 5GW?

As many know the internet entails a largely (thankfully) uncontrolled and vast plain of information. Within this “lawless” land, ideas flow free. The internet is, arguably, the purest incarnation of America’s First Amendment. The double edged sword is ; it…...
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Funny Thing Timing

Over eight decades after the Ottoman slaughter of some one and one half million Armenians the US Congress has seen fit to introduce a bill that will define said Ottoman endeavor in a most accurate fashion applying the label genocide…....
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The Weaponization of the Media

I’ve spent some hours digging around the cyber-sphere in an effort to find and define the many references to the fifth generation of warfare. The cause of this being Curtis’s newest online endeavor, the 5GW Timeline. A wiki like initiative…...
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Hammes 5GW Redux: Via Phil

Phil of Pacific Empire recently attended a talk given by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes. Phil’s participation in the Q and A phase: My question was: in the generations-of-war framework, each generation should be able to defeat the preceding generation. How…...
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