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| Political Conflict in the Age of Psychic Warfare | |
| 2024-04-07 | |
Warfare is fundamentally about breaking the enemy’s will to fight. This can be done with violence, or without it – before the fight even starts, through raw intimidation. Working from this understanding, military theorists have divided the history of warfare into five generations. First Generation Warfare, abbreviated 1GW, was war as it was waged from the dawn of civilization up through roughly the Civil War. This style of conflict involved massed line infantry, equipped with spears, pikes, swords, or line-of-sight ranged weapons such as longbows, crossbows, or muskets. The basic tactic was to draw up two large groups of armed men, bring them into close contact, and have them hack at one another until one side grew demoralized by the slaughter, at which point their line would break and the real slaughter could begin. Industrial or Second Generation Warfare (2GW) brought rifled firearms, machine-guns, and indirect artillery. Men could now be killed at a great distance, without ever seeing the enemy. Camouflage, concealment, and cover became the keys to victory. Its heyday was roughly from the Civil War to the Great War. Mechanized warfare or 3GW arrived with the internal combustion engine and powered flight. Tactics now depended on speed and manoeuvrability. It dawned with the Second World War and reached its apogee with the invasion of Iraq. Mechanized warfare created an overwhelming advantage for large industrial states. Small states and non-state actors responded with 4GW, which can be thought of as televisual warfare – combat via propaganda. This is war as fought with cameras and media distribution networks. It is guerrilla warfare via weaponized morality: using the enemy’s own military actions against it by showing the consequences of war for one’s civilian population to the enemy civilian population. Bait the enemy into killing babies, then ask them how many more babies they’re willing to murder. Think Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. The response to 4GW is 5GW – warfare by psyop, utilizing misinformation and sentiment engineering. Its characteristic weapons platform is the social network. Where 4GW seeks to use the enemy’s own morality against it, 5GW seeks to change that morality, to transform the enemy’s inner nature, getting the enemy to attack themselves for you, to surrender with open arms and smiles on their faces ... ideally, without the enemy even realizing that they’re under attack. An excellent introduction to the 5GW campaign that is being waged against us as we speak was provided by Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz. Robert W Malone MD, MS has provided it on his blog, complete with transcript: The End of Democracy: "What I’m Describing is Military Rule". This is worth watching in full. It provides a cogent, lucid description of what’s been happening to our precious networks over the last decade. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 Mechanized warfare created an overwhelming advantage for large industrial states. Small states and non-state actors responded with 4GW, which can be thought of as televisual warfare – combat via propaganda. This is war as fought with cameras and media distribution networks. Yeah, like CBS. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-04-07 16:49 |
| #2 Nonsense. Psych warfare was used from the earliest stages. Hell, you can see it with two tribes of monkeys contesting a territory. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-07 12:15 |
| #1 Ok, so he missed the ever important slice right after mechanized warfare. Insurgency warfare was the response to the mass of tanks and planes. Insurgency leveled the playing field by taking away the FLOT and battle lines. The follow on propaganda campaign come after this. As proof I only have to quote a lethal Maoist insurgent I once knew name Victor Corpus. He said," We cant fight in the air, we have no planes. We cant fight the tanks, we have no tanks. But all airplanes have to land and take off, and all tanks need gas. And we will fight them there." |
| Posted by: 49+Pan 2024-04-07 12:04 |