We are living in dark times. It`s war. But, what kind of war is it? What is really going on in this beautiful world we all live in? Some people claim it`s World War III. Maybe, but some claim it`s Fifth-generation warfare (5GW), and that is a warfare that is conducted primarily through non-kinetic military action.
It`s non-kinetic military action such as social engineering, misinformation, and cyberattacks, along with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and fully autonomous systems. Fifth generations warfare has been described by Daniel Abbot as a war of «information and perception».
Alex Jones knew this a long time ago, and that`s why he called his channel on YouTube «Info Wars».
Terry Terriff used the term in 2008, and he argued that while fifth-generation warfare allows «super-empowered individuals» to make political statements through terrorism, they lack the political power to actually have their demands met.
Alex P. Schmid said that fifth-generation warfare is typified by its «omnipresent battlefield», and the fact that people engaged in it do not necessarily use military force, instead employing a mixture of kinetic and non-kinetic force.
In the 1999 book «Unrestricted Warfare», by colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui of the People`s Liberation Army, they noted that in the years since the 1991 Gulf War, conventional military violence had decreased, which correlated to an increase in «political, economic, and technological violence», which they argued could be more devastating than a conventional war.
The book «Unrestricted Warfare» is a book on military strategy. Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent such as the U.S., through a variety of means.
Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means such as political warfare. Such means include using legal tools and economic means as leverage over one`s opponent and circumventing the need for direct military action.
Taylor Fravel pointed out a common distortion in the translation of the subtitle of the book. While it was translated and understood in the West by many as «China`s Master Plan to Destroy America», the actual subtitle was «Two Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization».
The English translation of the book was first made available by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service in 1999. The book was then published in English by a previously unknown Panamanian publisher, with the subtitle: «China`s Master Plan to Destroy America», and a picture of the burning World Trade Center on the cover.
Analysts have praised the book for seemingly prescient predictions of 9/11, three years before the date of actual events taking place.
The book is originally published as a work of military theory. The book has recently garnered renewed interest against the backdrop of deteriorating US-China relations and the trade war initiated by the first Trump Administration.
The book is the subject of extensive study by both current and former members of the US military establishment with numerous papers and articles published on the subject by the National Defence University, Army University Press, and the School of Advanced Warfighting.
Contents of the book have, among others, been cited as the source of inspiration for hardline US policies towards the People`s Republic of China by former chief strategist to the President of the United States Steve Bannon.
«The whole Chinese strategy is to avoid kinetic warfare and focus on information and economic warfare….. I told him (Trump), China has been engaging in an economic war against us for the past 20 – 25 years», Steve Bannon said years ago to President Trump.
The war we see in the world today comes in many forms. It can be psychological warfare, smuggling warfare, media warfare, drug warfare, network warfare, technological warfare, fabrication warfare, resources warfare, economic aid warfare, cultural warfare, and international law warfare to name a few.
Thomas P. M. Barnett believes that the effectiveness of fifth-generational warfare is exaggerated, as terrorism conducted by individuals, such as Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kaczynski, lacks the support of more organized movements.
This was seconded by George Michael, who noted that in the United States, gang violence was responsible for far more deaths than lone-wolf terrorist attacks.
A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or family members with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal and possibly violent behavior. Such behavior often constitutes a form of organized crime.
Gangs have existed for centuries. These include the French gang Belle Èpoque, Apaches, and the Bonnot Gang. Criminal organizations, such as the Italian Cose Nostra, Japanese Yakuza, Russian Bratva, and Chinese Triads, have also existed for centuries.
Criminal Gangs took over El Salvador and almost destroyed the country, but Nayib Bukele`s Government overpowered the gangs. The best-known gangs in El Salvador are Mara Salvatrucha, also called MS-13, and their rivals 18th Street. Bukele fixed it, and the country is back on track again.
The same cannot be said about other countries in the West.
In discussing the banditry in American history, Barrington Moore Jr, suggests that gangsterism as a «form of self-help which victimizes others», may appear in societies that lack strong «forces of law and order».
L.C. Rees described the nature of fifth-generation warfare as difficult to define, alluding to the third law of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke – «Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.»
So, if World War III has started, we will probably not see as they did in the 40s. But we can feel it.
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