A WORLD of 4GW - INSURGENCY LIFESTYLES To SURVIVE IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION Each Section in the study: Taking Iraqi Strategies Beyond: Insurgent Rebellions and Imperialist Strategies of War; has a summary of key points and then links to the original article and other resources.... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040708/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgency_1 It's a gripping vision of the not-so-future warfare. Latter-day Davids vs. the Empire...

Section XV. Additional Weapons for 4GW and US Strike Forces From RPGs and Sniper Support Systems to Mini and Neutron Nukes Weapons Of The Insurgents: RPGs and US Defense Weeks before the invasion of Iraq, a fight developed between the Army's top general and his civilian boss.. Gen. Eric K. Shinseki told the Senate Armed Services Committee the job would take something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld believed it could be done with...

Understanding Iraq/Saudi War- Insurgency as 4GW, by Jacques Dessalines The Wars We Live: Beyond Iraq Strategies - Insurgency and 4GW True Comprehension of The Grand Strategies of the Key Players -- and the Forces They Represent -- is nowhere to be found... There are many secrets... and plans that only a select few on each of the many sides have privy to. Section I. INTRODUCTION: The Stages of Ruling Class Control Mechanisms The ruling class employs three phases of escalation to con...

Section VII. What Makes a Military Force "Effective"? -- Sun Tzu's and Boyd's Perspective Sun Tzu focused on the problem of how to get groups of people to work together harmoniously under conditions of hardship, danger, and the inevitable confusion of conflict (and it applies to all forms of conflict, including business, politics, and sport). Before envisioning conflict with another state, the ruler and his immediate advisors must survey and compare many factors to guide their plans:...

Section XIII. Force Structure Options Summary of the guidelines for a Sun Tzu / Boyd force: 1. Military force is a key component of furthering national interests, but it is not the only component or in many cases even the primary one. It should always be used sparingly. 2. Military forces, when they are used, should obey Sun Tzu's dictum: end the conflict in the quickest possible time with the least possible damage to either side. 3. Military operations against conventional forces, for ...

(Continued from -- Understanding Iraq/Saudi War- Insurgency as 4GW - PART I From The Series: Beyond Iraq Strategies: Insurgency To Drive Bush Crazy Section VII. What Makes a Military Force "Effective"? -- Sun Tzu's and Boyd's Perspective Sun Tzu focused on the problem of how to get groups of people to work together harmoniously under conditions of hardship, danger, and the inevitable confusion of conflict (and it applies to all forms of conflict, including business, politics, ...

4GW - INSURGENCY and SURVIVAL Making the Insane Crazy & the Downtrodden Invincible Key Words: Fourth Generation Warfare - Insurgents - 4GW - Sun Tzu - John Boyd – Imperialism – War - Clash of Civilizations - Maneuver Warfare - Improvised Weapons - Guerrilla Warfare - US National Security Threats – Intelligence - Espionage - Sabotage - Assassination - Energy Vulnerability - Fifth Generation Warfare - Blackmail - Disrupting Alliances - al Qaeda - Iraqi Resistance - High-Tech Sensors ...

Section XI. Technology and Effectiveness in the 4GW World of Conflict and Deceptions As previously noted, neither Sun Tzu nor Boyd rated technology as highly important, and there are several reasons why. The first is that it is difficult to find historical support for holding technology in such esteem. There are many cases where the side with the higher technology lost. Vietnam springs to mind. It surprises people to learn that in World War II, the Germans tended to win when the...

Section X. Equipment and Organizations for Maneuver Warfare It is possible to execute maneuver warfare and 4GW with the equipment the U.S. military has today and has planned for the future. As the 16th Century samurai philosopher Miyamoto Musashi insisted, a warrior using this strategy and armed only with a fencepost can take on a fully outfitted samurai and defeat him as Musashi in fact did. Three hundred years later, blitzkrieg warfare achieved its greatest success, against F...

VIII. Creating Forces: Designs for Multiple Next-Generation Strike Forces Although the strategies of Boyd and Sun Tzu may seem complicated, with numerous lists and in Boyd’s case, hours of briefing slides, much of this, including practically all of Sun Tzu, provides guidance for employing forces and only indirectly affects their creation. At the beginning of “Patterns of Conflict,” Boyd suggests four elements that would enable a force to function effectively in maneuver conflict ...

Section IX. Enhanced Third Generation Warfare: The Warfare of Rapid Maneuver When confronted with a well-armed opponent in conventional formations, the temptation might be to try to engage and defeat him in a decisive battle, under the assumption that if one wins and enough of one’s forces survive, one can then have one’s way with his country and people. This notion of “bringing the enemy to battle” and defeating him as the goal of war characterizes first and second generati...

Section VI. Military Force vis-à-vis Other Options and Considerations The Balkans, Chechnya, East Timor, Somalia, Rwanda and Iraq have shown the limited capacity of the major powers to deploy forces relevant to keeping the peace and rebuilding states shattered by civil war. Civil affairs capabilities have proven to be almost non existent. Keeping the peace requires soldiers to act like policemen, a job for which they are ill prepared and ill equipped. Yet, an effort to create an i...

Section V. Sun Tzu and Boyd on the Utility of Military Force Sun Tzu recommends two options as superior to battle for using military force to triumph in war. The best way to defeat an enemy is by “attacking his strategy.” This could mean to attack early, while the enemy’s plans are being laid. Others find a deeper meaning, to employ unusual methods to “seize victory without even battling,” which seems more in harmony with the maxim that “to win without fighting is best.” Should t...

1403 wds June 18 Section III. Boyd, Sun Tzu and Evolving Military Strategy for Socio-Cultural Warfare Sun Tzu 101 The time in which Sun Tzu lived was a laboratory for the evolution and testing of military ideas. During the "Warring States" period, China broke into 8 major states and a dozen principalities, each attempting to subdue the others by armed conflict. Invasion by one or more neighbors posed a constant threat, so that war truly was, in the famous opening words of the boo...

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