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  2. Generations of warfare - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Fourth-generation warfare - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Fourth-generation fighter - Wikipedia

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    Whereas the premier third-generation jet fighters (e.g., the F-4 and MiG-23) were designed as interceptors with only a secondary emphasis on maneuverability, 4th generation aircraft try to reach an equilibrium, with most designs, such as the F-14 and the F-15, being able to execute BVR interceptions while remaining highly maneuverable in case the platform and the pilot find themselves in a ...

  5. 4 generations in the U.S. Navy: This Hampton family has ... - AOL

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    The grooves of the Will family’s gold-plated dolphins have tarnished. But the submarine warfare insignia, having been pinned to the chests of four generations, shines nonetheless. The dolphins ...

  6. Jet fighter generations - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] It has been suggested that Lockheed Martin "labeled the F-35 a 'fifth-generation' fighter in 2005, a term it borrowed from Russia in 2004 to describe the F-22". [12] Some accounts have subdivided the 4th generation into 4 and 4.5, or 4+ and 4++. The table below shows how some authors have divided up the generations, progressively ...

  7. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Hybrid warfare - Employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare, and cyberwarfare with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy, lawfare and foreign electoral intervention. Incentive – A strategy that uses incentives to gain cooperation; Indirect approach – Dislocation is the aim of strategy ...

  8. Meet the four types of millennials, from the Great Recession ...

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    Many members of the generation will tell you it isn’t true, and with good reason: Generations are much more nuanced than their stereotypes, especially given just how many millennials there are.

  9. Thomas Hammes - Wikipedia

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    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.