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Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW), an introduction

Small Wars Journal has an excellent explanation of 4GW by retired Marine Corps Colonel Gary Anderson. You may be startled by his final conclusion. Briefly and I’m no expert, 4GW is asymmetric warfare in which a much smaller adversary sometimes…

O = W

Paleocon, co-originator of Fourth Generation War theory, and Iraq War opponent William Lind in Global Guerillas “O=W” is a bumper sticker beginning to show up on liberals’ cars. After the President’s speech Tuesday night at West Point, I suspect it…

Army holds ‘Mad Scientist’ conference

Sounding very 4GW and 5GW, the Army held a “Mad Scientist” seminar last August, to “investigate proliferating technologies with the potential to empower individuals and groups in the next 10-25 years.” Quoting from the seminar summary The U.S. must accept…

Global guerrilla. Henry Okah

Global Guerrillas has a fascinating piece on Henry Okah who apparently founded and ran a gun-running empire that also shut down and diverted huge amounts of oil in Nigeria. He ran it from South Africa, often communicating by cell phone…