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Fourth Generation Warfare: How Tactics of the Weak Confound the Strong Postulates that today's global environment is defined by the 4th Generation War reality, with nation-states confronting criminal enterprises, fanatical opportunists, and terrorists whose gang-like networks transcend national boundaries. All these actors often slip through the cracks of security, military, and legal bureaucracies. Opinion article by G.I. Wilson, John P. Sullivan, and Hal Kempfer, Military.Com, September 2003.


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Title: Fourth Generation Warfare: How Tactics of the Weak Confound the Strong
Description: Postulates that today's global environment is defined by the 4th Generation War reality, with nation-states confronting criminal enterprises, fanatical opportunists, and terrorists whose gang-like networks transcend national boundaries. All these actors often slip through the cracks of security, military, and legal bureaucracies. Opinion article by G.I. Wilson, John P. Sullivan, and Hal Kempfer, Military.Com, September 2003.
Location: http://d-n-i.net/fcs/comments/c490.htm
 
  
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Title: Fourth Generation Warfare
Description: Slide show that summarizes the key aspects of asymmetric conflicts, by Greg Wilcox and G.I. Wilson for Boyd Comference, 2002.
Location: http://d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/4GW_wilson-wilcox_boyd_conf_2002.pdf
 
  
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Title: The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation
Description: An article that intends to anticipate what the future conflicts will be like. Introduces the concept of fourth generation war. By William S. Lind, Keith Nightengale, John F. Schmitt, Joseph W. Sutton and Gary I. Wilson, published in Marine Corps Gazette, October 1989.
Location: http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/4th_gen_war_gazette.htm
 
  
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Title: Changing the Paradigm of the War
Description: A paper about the nature of fourth generation warfare and the form it may take in Middle East. By Steve Daskal, November 2003.
Location: http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/daskal_changing_paradigms.htm
 
  
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Title: From The Military: Applying 4GW Theory to The Intelligence Community
Description: The article states that the intelligence community is key to the 4th generation warfare, so it's important that they understand what they're looking for. By Myke Cole.
Location: http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/cole_lessons_from_the_military.htm
 
  
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Title: Fourth Generation Warfare and the Information Arrow
Description: States the importance the information in the new way of fighting wars. By Greg Wilcox, July 2005.
Location: http://www.d-n-i.net/wilcox/information_arrow_draft_8p.doc
 
  
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Title: Fourth Generation Warfare Is Here!
Description: Harold A. Gould and Franklin C. Spinney review the changes after September 11th attacks. University of Virginia, USA, Fall, 2001.
Location: http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/gould_spinney_4GW.htm