Phil sent me this link yesterday evening with the caveat:
'It's a fairly long read but I highly recommend it.
Interesting perspective.'
I concur with that statement. It's well worth reading even if it takes a few different sittings.
Bookmark it and go back to it. I had to do that three times last night and finally finished
it this morning.
I will be reading it again for sure. I still have to go through the comment section
As always YMMV but this is worth the read in our humble opinion.
First Generation Warfare, abbreviated 1GW, was war as it was waged from the dawn of civilization up through roughly the Civil War. This style of conflict involved massed line infantry, equipped with spears, pikes, swords, or line-of-sight ranged weapons such as longbows, crossbows, or muskets. The basic tactic was to draw up two large groups of armed men, bring them into close contact, and have them hack at one another until one side grew demoralized by the slaughter, at which point their line would break and the real slaughter could begin.
Industrial or Second Generation Warfare (2GW) brought rifled firearms, machine-guns, and indirect artillery. Men could now be killed at a great distance, without ever seeing the enemy. Camouflage, concealment, and cover became the keys to victory. Its heyday was roughly from the Civil War to the Great War.
Mechanized warfare or 3GW arrived with the internal combustion engine and powered flight. Tactics now depended on speed and manoeuvrability. It dawned with the Second World War and reached its apogee with the invasion of Iraq.
Mechanized warfare created an overwhelming advantage for large industrial states. Small states and non-state actors responded with 4GW, which can be thought of as televisual warfare – combat via propaganda. This is war as fought with cameras and media distribution networks. It is guerrilla warfare via weaponized morality: using the enemy’s own military actions against it by showing the consequences of war for one’s civilian population to the enemy civilian population. Bait the enemy into killing babies, then ask them how many more babies they’re willing to murder. Think Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
The response to 4GW is 5GW – warfare by psyop, utilizing misinformation and sentiment engineering. Its characteristic weapons platform is the social network. Where 4GW seeks to use the enemy’s own morality against it, 5GW seeks to change that morality, to transform the enemy’s inner nature, getting the enemy to attack themselves for you, to surrender with open arms and smiles on their faces ... ideally, without the enemy even realizing that they’re under attack.
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Folks read comments online about "Not voting our way out!" and hyperbole about armed revolution.... But the direction things are taking is clear, the author makes some very good points, and I'm old enough to remember what Communists were like. One of the problems of having the state in charge of educating your children, is they will never educate them well enough to know what freedoms have been taken from them, nor how to fight to get them back. Schools have indoctrinated kids to think government = good, and even worse, opposition TO government, is heretical. The state has become religion, just like in all communist situations.
ReplyDeleteIt's all rolling out just like a story in an ancient book that is still very popular. Conspiracy? Absolutely. M o the B? Certainly looks like a wart.
DeleteMy personal opinion is that Mike Benz himself is a grifter and psyop tool.
ReplyDeleteHe is.
DeleteSomehow, Mike Benz didn't mention the point that while the government will collapse from debt and dysfunction, productive people who make practical things, won't. Oil will continue to be pumped from the Earth and turned into air conditioning, no government required. I can't imagine why he would completely leave that out.
Deleteps Millions will have something to say about the future they’ve chosen for us.
ReplyDeletePeople have repeatedly made the mistake of thinking the US had some sort of victory when Yanukovych ran for Russia. It wasn't the US that ousted Yanukovych, Yanukovych ousted himself. He ran for Asylum to his buddy Putin because he was going to be brought to book for ordering the killing on the Maidan. When he went on the lam, he abandoned his office.
ReplyDeleteAs with so much I have read about Putin's war, the linked article is filled with BS. The author has obviously drank deep of Putin's Kool aid.
The winners get to write history. Kind of laughing that Icky Vicky the Architect of the Ukraine Proxy war is ah, Retiring.
DeleteKool Aid, many flavors and both sides have plenty of it.
"War is when your government tells you who the enemy is.
ReplyDeleteRevolution is when you figure it out for yourself."
— Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
Schools should teach John Locke, the Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the USA.
ReplyDeleteIf so, the bad guys seem to be losing rather pitifully.
ReplyDeleteA lot to sort through and digest, like hogs rooting in the old corn crib, there’s some good kernels in there, you just got to find them and ignore the rest...of course, some hogs just ain’t got no sense.....
ReplyDeleteRead with interest, and some trepidation. However, I was pleased to see that while they try as they will to manipulate in cyberspace, events in the "real world" cause them to stumble.
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