GI Wilson

4GW allows ISIS to fight and win against more powerful armies. Like ours.

By / 5 Comments / 15 April 2015

Summary:  Today GI Wilson explains how one of our foes, calling itself the Islamic State, uses 4GW to match their strengths against the weaknesses of our far more powerful military. Earlier generations of jihadists using 4GW methods changed the course of America (9/11 was one of the most effective military operations ever). ISIS is better. …

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DoD defends itself against dangerous new ideas about 4GW.

By / 3 Comments / 23 February 2015

Summary:  Modern wars are fought on paper as competing military theories before people put them to use. Some do this faster than others. Mao wrote the core texts bringing 4GW to maturity in 1937-38; since then others have greatly advanced the art — while western militaries fiddle with the failed methods of COIN. In the …

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Understanding 4GW, the first step to winning the Long War.

By / 28 Comments / 18 November 2015

Summary: in the 65 years after Mao brought 4th generation war to maturity, 25 years after the article coining the term, we continue to send our troops out to fight 4GW wars in foreign lands. We continue to lose, as almost all foreign armies do. At the FM website we mark these anniversaries by articles …

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The Psychology of Killer Drones – action against our foes; reaction affecting us

By / 16 March 2015

From the archives. It describes America today more than it did when written in September 2011. Summary: GI WIlson explains that we now have enough experience with drone warfare to study its effects. Just as in physics, our actions affect ourselves as well as our targets. Social science research shows that drones are a gateway …

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The ultimate 21st Century cage match: Titanic Government vs. the National Security Iceberg

By / 17 Comments / 16 January 2015

Summary: Today GI Wilson writes about the great game of the 21st century — the US government vs. our 4GW foes. Once called “low intensity war”, our foes have taught us the ability of sustained 4GW produces only a series of expensive defeats for foreign armies (no matter how powerful). A slow bleeding, until we …

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