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Fifth generation warfare has been described by Daniel Abbot as a war of "information and perception". [1] There is no widely agreed upon definition of fifth-generation warfare, [ 2 ] and it has been rejected by some scholars, including William S. Lind , who was one of the original theorists of fourth-generation warfare .
Fifth-generation warfare is conducted primarily through non-kinetic military action, such as social engineering, misinformation, and cyberattacks, along with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and fully autonomous systems. Fifth generation warfare has been described by Daniel Abbot as a war of "information and perception".
With the fifth generation slowly coming into service, attention turned to a replacement sixth generation. The requirements for such a fighter remain under debate. Fifth-generation abilities for battlefield survivability, air superiority and ground support are being enhanced and adapted to the future threat environment.
Fifth-generation warfare; Firepower; First island chain; First strike (nuclear strategy) Five paragraph order; Fleet in being; Force concentration; Forward air control operations during World War II; Forward basing; Forward-basing; Fragplan; Full-spectrum dominance
The historical analysis used to justify the concept of fifth dimension operations being developed was the notion that: Land warfare was defined first by human energy (infantry) and then by animal energy (cavalry) in a three-dimensional medieval era, and then by mechanical energy in the four-dimensional modern era.
All revealed fifth-generation fighters use commercial off-the-shelf main processors to directly control all sensors to form a consolidated view of the battlespace with both onboard and networked sensors, while previous-generation jet fighters used federated systems where each sensor or pod would present its own readings for the pilot to combine in their own mind a view of the battlespace.
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The loss-of-strength gradient (LSG) is a military concept devised by Kenneth E. Boulding in his 1962 book Conflict and Defense: A General Theory.He argued the amount of a nation's military power that could be brought to bear in any part of the world depended on geographic distance.