Threats to America are not all military threats. Recognizing the need to fight those non-military threats is good. Vital even. Equally vital is not thinking the tools to fight those "4th generation warfare" non-military threats are the right tools to defeat military threats. Or thinking that optimizing the military to fight non-military threats is wise.
I'm good on defeating non-state and non-military threats to America that are being called 4th generation warfare:
Because 4GW is, at its essence, a battle for legitimacy, and Cultural Marxism is its domestic vanguard. External 4GW threats like narco-invasions or unassimilated migrations succeed only when they exploit internal fractures—precisely the fissures widened by cultural subversion. A military schooled solely in generations of war, without grasping how Cultural Marxism preconditions the battlespace, will treat symptoms (sinking boats, sealing borders) while ignoring the disease: a society whose loyalty to the state frays under relentless ideological assault.
What I worry about is that calling the fight against that kind of threat a new type of "war" confuses people into thinking the means of fighting that threat translate to defeating peer enemy military threats.
The whole 4G Warfare thing has a "let the net fairies win for us" vibe. [WARNING: High rant-to-dignified ratio]
Moving from first to third generation warfare did not change the armies that evolved through those eras into something other than armies. While many silver-bullet advocates through the ages have championed a single weapon system as the key to avoiding hard and bloody wars, I will at least grant credit to 4th generation advocates for creating a more amorphous networked "solution" that avoids an easy target for rebuke.
Dispersing and networking our troops to fight with less physical contact is absolutely necessary. But they are still soldiers. Turning them into something other than soldiers is 1G suicidal.
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