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Fourth Generation Warfare
Some analysts have argued that "fourth generation warfare" is new. This author will argue that there is nothing new about fourth generation warfare. Modern military analysts have simply been ignoring it because they know how to do second and third generation warfare. Fourth generation warfare is as old as human beings. Although it was only formally defined in the famous Marine Corps Gazette article of 1989, it predates formal warfare precisely because it involves terrorist actors. Since it existed from the beginning, it was just "under the radar screen" of military analysts who were used to modern technology and tactics.
The simplest definition of fourth generation warfare includes any kind of warfare in which one of the participants is not a state but instead a violent terrorist actor. Classical examples include such as the slave rising under Spartacus. Of course, this predates the modern concept of warfare and is a classic example of this type of warfare. Fourth generation warfare uses tactics deemed unacceptable by modern warfare theory makers to weaken the advantaged opponent's will...
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This view has not been universally embraced. Scholars such as Antulio Echevarria II feel that we would be better embracing the old idea of counterinsurgency and that the new theoretical formulation offers nothing new (Echevarria, "Fourth generation War and Other Myths," p. iii.).
The use of fourth generation warfare of course happened even during the Cold War period, as the superpowers and major regional powers attempted to keep their grip on colonies and territories. Unable to withstand direct combat against modern weapons, non-state entities used tactics of secrecy, terror, and confusion to overcome the gap with state combatants. Fourth generation warfare has very often involved an insurgent group or other violent non-state actor trying to implement a new government or reestablish an old one over the current ruling power. However, a fourth generation war is the most successful (from the rebel's perspective) when the non-state entity does not attempt, to impose its own rule, but instead tries simply to disorganize and…
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Lind, William S, Nightengale, Keith, Schmitt, John F., Sutton, Joseph S., and Lieutenant
Wilson, Gary I. "The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation." Marine
Corps Gazette, October 1989, 22-26.
Murden, Simon. "Staying the Course in 'Fourth-Generation Warfare': Persuasion and Perservance in the Era of the Asymmetric Bargaining War." Contemporary Security Policy 28, no. 1 (April 2007): 197-211.
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