zenpundit.com:
Dr. Chet Richards announced that DNI is set to adjourn sine die.DNI set to close Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particul (Read More)
Defense and the National Interest:
Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals.I have great faith in the grow (Read More)
Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
William Lind, who writes a great deal about Fourth-Generation warfare isn't too surprised about what happened at all: http://www.d-n-i.net/dni/2009/11/10/on-war-321-4gw-comes-to-ft-hood/ "Last week's shootings at Ft. Hood, ... (Read More)
Opposed Systems Design:
Bill Lind predictably argues that the Ft. Hood shootings represent 4GW on American soil. His list of policy recommendations: The Establishment will attempt to label the massacre at Ft. Hood an “isolated incident.” On the con (Read More)
Defense and the National Interest:
William S. Lind10 November 2009Last week’s shootings at Ft. Hood, in which thirteen U. S. Soldiers were killed and 30 people wounded, appear to be a classic example of Fourth Generation war. The shooter, U. S. Army Major Nid (Read More)
Opposed Systems Design:
The UN pulls 600 staff out of Afghanistan after the Taliban attacked them.“The United Nations is fully committed to helping all of Afghanistan’s people, as it has been for more than half a century,” the statement said.If the (Read More)
zenpundit.com:
Futurist Jamais Cascio on strategic forecasting:Futures Thinking: Asking the Question….”Asking the Question” is the first step in a formal futures thinking project. At first glance, it should be easy–after all, you should kno (Read More)
Defense and the National Interest:
What we’re doing in Iraq and Afghanistan is not counter-insurgency but some form of occupation. The governments of those countries can do COIN, and we can also do COIN but only in our country and its territories — where we a (Read More)
Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
Put simply, this is a guidebook for those seeking to understand Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW) aka the type of warfare we're seeing today from enemies like Al-Qaeda that render most of our high-tech weaponry completely usele (Read More)
Defense and the National Interest:
Although he may not realize it:Its not just in the technology realm that America’s enemies are seeking advantage.. Unable to counter the U.S. dominance in long-range strike, enemies in wars use information operations among th (Read More)
zenpundit.com:
Most of you have followed the series on the Afghanistan strategy debate at Abu Muqawama that was prompted by the Andrew Bacevich article or read the exchange I had with Dr. Bernard Finel or at the many other defense blogs tal (Read More)
Defense and the National Interest:
We’ve just posted a new version of FMFM 1-A, Fourth Generation Warfare, along with two new manuals:FMFM 3-23 Air CooperationFMFM 3-25 How to Fight in a 4th Generation InsurgencyAll of these are available from our 4GW Manuals (Read More)
COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search:
This entry was posted on Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 5:29 am and is filed under 4GW, Afghanistan, America, COIN, academia, al qaida, analytic, chet richards, counterinsurgency, foreign policy, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals (Read More)
Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
But also the many instances of subversive, indirect, deniable warfare between them - the "fourth generation warfare (4GW)," if you wish to use William Lind's vocabulary. - Asserting SIPRI's claim that armed conflicts only pr (Read More)
Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
Such fourth-generation warfare (4GW) "was seen as a way to waste the strength of the strong - to bleed the target state dry morally and economically. The result is an eternal war that typically ends with the target state's i (Read More)
Defense and the National Interest:
In case you missed it, COIN’s Siren Song:In its fullest form the doctrine can be reduced to three basic elements: 1-Political warfare designed to eliminate the symbolic causes of revolt. This would include such efforts as a (Read More)
Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
Since all the conflicts today are "fourth generation" warfare and "non-trinitarian", "Clausewitz's theories do not apply". This from FM's post entitled, "The trinity of modern warfare at work in Afghanistan". (Read More)
Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
... the creation of parallel institutions to counter the dominant left cultural forces”), Lind's main claim to fame is the leading role he's played in developing the theory of “Fourth Generation Warfare” (4GW), which is why I (Read More)
Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
This is the theory of non-Trinitarian War of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW). Non-state actors are organisations such as religious organisations, criminal gangs, ethnic groups and other forms of social organisation. ... (Read More)