Dreaming 5GW

Recent Entries in Timeline Candidates

• Winning Without Fighting

  Luke of the blog The Balance of Terror summarizes the concept of 5GW found within The Handbook of 5GW :The entire premise of the 'Handbook strikes me as sound: namely, that there is such a thing as a fifth gradient of warfare...

• Mark Safranski Goes Into the Heart of Darkness

  Mark Safranski's essay "5GW: Into the Heart of Darkness", from The Handbook of 5GW, is included in the "Examples of 5GW" section of that book.  In the essay, Safranski first examines the role of the state in our present day,...

• Arherring on COIN and xGW

  Arherring takes a look at "The Cognitive Dissonance of COIN: Right Doctrine, Wrong War ," by Jason Thomas at Small Wars Journal.  That article points out the inadequacies of COIN as it has been practiced in Afghanistan while also suggesting...