You act as if there is a fully defined and accepted theory of 5GW out there. There isn’t. I pointed to some trends that are likely to define it in my article on the topic. Hammes has too. Lind is adamant that it doesn’t exist yet and all speculation is foolish at this point.

That being said, I enjoy the speculative theory (particularly from Dan) on the topic the D5GW team is working on.

Addendum to comment left for John:

–or, I should add, if you expand what you have already written into a consideration of how these diverse and self-interested GGs might begin to work closely together, conscientiously attacking the system from multiple points, in order to build a new type of world they all want, that, too, might begin to approach a real theory of 5GW. (So, given some recent discussion, the two — coordinating-GGs-5GW and the resiliency-builders-5GW — may be the 5GW insurgency and 5GW counterinsurgency.)

You were the one who misrepresented your work by labeling GG “fifth-generation warfare.” Your insistence on defining Global Guerrillas as multiple, non-coordinating and entirely self-interested guerrillas, who largely do not share common goals and motivations, automatically places your theory outside the realm of any theory of warfare that can fit within the xGW model. I mean, as a collective. Individual groups of GG may operate at 3GW, 4GW, perhaps even 4GW+ — given that Lind’s 4GW is as open-ended and ill-defined; but calling the whole dynamic a generation of warfare is misleading.

However, as you may know, I’ve found a place for your GG in 5GW. If individual GG groups begin operating at a 5GW, this does not mean that all will, nor that “Global Guerrillas” itself is the fifth generation of warfare.

Fifth generation war planners will need to be able to examine the environment which they would alter. Thus, the things you describe will be important for that examination. I have also said numerous times that I keep an eye on your website; this is why. I’ve also often previous said that GG describes the environment more than anything else, from a 5GW perspective.

Finally, your second book, from what I’ve read, may actually leap into the real 5GW (as you see it.) If you go back and read my comment to Shlok, above, rather than offer your usual inconsequential one-line comebacks, you might begin to grasp what I’m saying. A theory of warfare is not merely prophetic warnings of dire futures and the troublesome present; no, it must have a use and be used. As you determine how resilliencies can be built to offset or overcome the GG dynamic, you’ll be developing a type of 5GW. Finally.