Results tagged “william lind” from Dreaming 5GW

From Bill Lind’s latest (“On war #251: War or not war?): Between February 8 and February 14, four American schools suffered attacks by lone gunmen. The most recent, at Northern Illinois University on February 14, saw five killed (plus the gunman) and 16 wounded. Similar attacks have occurred elsewhere, including shopping malls. Is this war? I don’t think so. Some proponents of “Fifth Generation war,” which they define as actions by “superempowered individuals,” may disagree. But these incidents lack an...

I should have expected it when I jabbed “public diplomacy”, but Mountainrunner decided to seek revenge by ravaging generations of war theory. At least, he does so while donning the mantle of a William Lind literalist, apparently rejecting any deviation from the Lindian line as either an invalid formulation for xGW, or a rejection of xGW. A quote. To your point that “The generations of war are not emerging but are always present.” That, sir, is not generational and goes...

At the Boyd Conference I had the pleasure of listening to William Lind share his idea of 4GW, was in the context of everything else. Lind is an excellent speaker, and I regret not being able to talk to him in person. (He was clearly in demand). My general impression of him is this limited exclusively to the words in his speech. Lind does enormous damage to his cause. Willian Lind is primarily an opponent of multiculturalism, especially in its...

Considering his recent comments on 5GW, given at the 2007 Boyd Conference in Quantico, Virginia No 5GW is in sight. “No eyes can see that far.” and “Concepts of 5GW are meer attempts to ignore the breadth of 4GW.” and “There are vital, unexplored parts of 4GW [which may be misdescribed as 5GW].” and “There will be more central elements [of 4GW] manifesting themselves.” Consideirng all this, and his earlier comment that he refused to use computers, I think we...

I had been cautious of posting here, as I self-promote enough on other blogs, but now that Aherring and Curtis have asked me to share my thoughts, I thought I will. Attempts to establish what is meant by 5GW runs into two main problems. William Lind’s dialectical definition of “generation” as a “dialectically qualitative shift” from the preceding generation. To the extent he means “something very different,” I agree with him. But his phrase has shades of Hegelian-Marxist-Dialectic b.s. about...

PrefaceAs regular readers probably already know, debate over the characterization of John Robb’s “Global Guerrillas” has been spotlighted in various places around this tiny section of the web.PurpleSlog initiated the recent debate in “Am I Understanding the Gist of the Global Guerilla Concept?” and remains truly objective throughout the debate.  With Dan tdaxp, PurpleSlog arrived at the consideration that the GG movement might be a type of 3GW — which seemed a good characterization from my perspective:Is there a reason...

…after getting a little hot air from Michelle Malkin: “Michelle Malkin uses 5GW to strike back” —Michelle Malkin has a new weapon in her arsenal. It is called Hot Air, yeah right, like a hydrogen bomb emits hot air! Her latest vlog post is called Freedom is not free. Amen, sister.Today, I was introduced to a concept (5GW) that should have been self-evident.The link to Phatic Communion’s “Initiating 5GW” is on the word flailing.  Heh. Well, the Thunder Pig finally...

Introduction In the second installment of this series on Rethinking the OODA — “EBO is Everything in War — Almost” — I made some claims which will further bear on the subject of the generations of warfare as conceived by William Lind: “I would assert [that] all warfare beyond absolutely destructive warfare is EBO or ought to be considered such.” “[A]lthough I have not drawn a direct line from Act to World [in the Concrete OODA of the Revised OODA], ...