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The term second generation warfare was created by the U.S. military in 1989. Third-generation warfare focuses on using late modern technology-derived tactics of leveraging speed, stealth, and surprise to bypass the enemy's lines and collapse their forces from the rear. Essentially, this was the end of linear warfare on a tactical level, with ...
Fourth-generation warfare (4GW) is conflict characterized by a blurring of the distinction between war and politics, and of the distinction between combatants and civilians. It is placed as succeeding the third generation in the five-generation model of military theory .
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. [3]
William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an American conservative author, described as being aligned with paleoconservatism. [1] He is the author of many books and one of the first proponents of fourth-generation warfare (4GW) theory and is director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation. [2]
Hammes traces the origins of fourth-generation warfare to Mao Zedong. [ 6 ] In September 2006, Hammes was one of the retired U.S. military officers who, along with Generals John Batiste and Paul Eaton , called for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
Jet fighter generations classify the major technology leaps in the historical development of the jet fighter. Different authorities have identified different technology jumps as the key ones, dividing fighter development into different numbers of generations. Five generations are now widely recognised, with the development of a sixth under way. [1]
Unrestricted Warfare: Two Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization [1] (simplified Chinese: 超限战; traditional Chinese: 超限戰; lit. 'warfare beyond bounds') is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗). [2]
New generation warfare or NGW (Russian: Война нового поколения) is a Russian theory of unconventional warfare which prioritizes the psychological and people-centered aspects over traditional military concerns, and emphasizes a phased approach of non-military influence such that armed conflict, if it arises, is much less costly in human or economic terms for the aggressor ...