Third-generation warfare: the tactics of nonlinear movement, including maneuver and infiltration, developed in response to the increase in battlefield firepower in WWI.Second-generation warfare: the tactics of indirect fire and mass movement, developed in the era of the rifled musket, breechloaders, barbed wire and the machine gun and.First-generation warfare: the tactics of line and column, developed in the era of the smoothbore musket.In a nutshell, Lind et al.’s thesis is that the “modern age” of warfare began with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which, Lind opines, “gave the state a monopoly on war.” From that point on, modern warfare went through three generations, namely: What’s happening around the world today in more and more places is that state armed forces find them find themselves fighting not other state armed forces, but fourth-generation forces. Armed forces are designed to fight other state armed forces. We now think of foreign affairs and defense within the framework of the nation-state. The change is what I call the rise of fourth generation war and this is specifically the fourth generation of modern war. LIND: This city and every capital in the world is completely oblivious to the fact that it is caught up in a change in warfare so great that it not only makes our current defense and foreign policies obsolete, it essentially makes obsolete the whole framework within which we think about defense and foreign policy. Lind & Philip Giraldi – Fourth Generation Warfare & The Deep State.” Lind-and you’ll want to watch “ William S. For an in-depth answer to the latter question, you’ll want to read “ The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation“-a 1989 article from the Marine Corps Gazette co-authored by William S. What is fifth-generation warfare, anyway? And, come to think of it, what were the first four generations of warfare? I am James Corbett of The Corbett Report and this is Your Guide to Fifth-Generation Warfare It’s called fifth-generation warfare, and I’m here to tell you all about it. Most of the victims of this warfare aren’t even able to identify it as war, nor do they understand that they are combatants in it.

The Air Killer by James Corbett