Thread by @thevagrantpepe

On 5th Generation Warfare (5GW):

"The Fifth Generation Mission-space represents a new environment in which future operations will take place. The complexity of the domain is exacerbated by uncontrolled and undefined actors directing or influencing the narrative...

...The greatest challenge of the mew mission space is
the total erosion of the concepts of the enemy and of war itself. The opponent will be much more ambiguous and warfare will become an insidious creep designed to degrade from within rather than attack from without...

...The challenge in this environment is to understand progress toward the end state: to link the tactical actions in the mission space to the operational direction. This is no longer just a requirement to conduct an assessment of weapons effect...

...it is a requirement to understand the changing desires, opinions, attitudes and driving factors of the population; and how to influence them."

"5GW will force us to consider the critical importance of the narrative...

...and force us to accept the supporting role of physical action. We are no longer fighting a defined adversary in a defined battlespace for a defined period of time...

...Instead, the 5th generation mission space is a continuous global battle of narratives that will play out over both virtual and physical space and encompass a range of violent and non-violent actions and effects.”

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