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1/ My specialty is understanding Fourth Generation Warfare and its underlying Boydian Moral Conflict. Epistemological warfare is key. The battlefield is in your head. How you perceive reality. Interpret reality. Act on that interpretation. So, here are 5 articles from
2/ The Atlantic (4+1) that touch on 4GW. Unthinkable: a ranking of the 50 moments that define the Trump presidency, from @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/unthinkable/ #TrumpUnthinkable 1. theatlantic.com/politics/archi… 2. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
3/ 3. theatlantic.com/politics/archi… 4. theatlantic.com/politics/archi… +1 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… Just to refresh. Moral Conflict is the highest form of conflict. The essence of John Boyd's moral conflict is to create, exploit, and magnify MENACE, UNCERTAINTY, and MISTRUST. The aim is to
4/ create in your head FEAR, ANXIETY, and ALIENATION. The strategic objective is to "destroy the moral bonds that permit an organic whole to exist." See book "Science, Strategy and War" p. 171. Building up from Moral Conflict is Fourth Generation Warfare--the war being waged by
5/ the Christian Right, the conservative movement, and now their agent, the Trump regime in government. 4GW has as its central focus the undermining of the legitimacy of the federal government; liberalism; secularism; science; the Enlightenment; any social entity that promotes
6/ those values orchallenges their hierarchy (via Lakoff): medium.com/@GeorgeLakoff/… Antidote: solidarity; harmony; adaptability; initiative; whatever philosophical system that gives you moral values, moral authority, and moral strength, that promotes moral victory. STAY STRONG
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