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4GW

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4GWFourth Generation Warfare


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The well-done 4GW attack was directed against "soft-target" nodes, that is, targets that are central points in larger networks whose disruption are thought to have mega-consequences.
The methodology of 4GW is to use all available networks--political, economic, social, and military--to attack directly the will of the enemy.
From a security perspective, it appears that the rise of jihadism and the present terrorist threat increasingly conform to the 4GW model of military and quasi-military conflict proceeding in an undeclared or unacknowledged manner, in accordance with Ayman al-Zawahiri's description of the Islamist approach to war ascribed to the Prophet Muhammad: "War is deceit [and] triumph is achieved [through] deception.
 
 
 
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