The Handbook of 5GW
Just scanned the rough draft of The Handbook of 5GW: A Fifth Generation of War?, in which I will have a modest contribution ( which needs some work, in my view).
The book will be controversial.
Published by Nimble Books and edited by Dan of tdaxp.
More as the project develops.
josephfouche:
May 12th, 2009 at 5:06 am
The book may end up like the labors of the protagonists of Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. In inventing a coherent narrative for the master conspiracy, they created the master conspiracy. In postulating the existence of 5GW, the handbook may end up creating 5GW.
Lexington Green:
May 12th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
"In postulating the existence of 5GW, the handbook may end up creating 5GW."
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A very 5GW thing to do.
zen:
May 12th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hi gents,
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Monsieur Fouche, I take a different tack in my chapter that 5GW is not going to be something entirely new but very old. In dealing with emergent phenomena, if you describe it, it isn’t a self-fulfilling prophecy – unless you are wrong. 🙂
josephfouche:
May 12th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
True. In my chapter I take 5GW back to Kautilya (c. 300 BC). In truth, you can trace something in a 5GWish vein at least back to the Tai Gong (Jiang Ziya) (c. 1100 BC):
http://www.chinese-wiki.com/Tai_Gong_Six_Teachings-Military_Teaching_Chapter_3
And that’s just the historical record.
zen:
May 13th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Ha! If Tai Gong is the same as T’ai Kung – and I think it is-I have it on my shelf, antilibrary division!
josephfouche:
May 13th, 2009 at 4:37 am
They are one and the same. The Six Teachings are part of Ralph Sawyer’s indispensable Seven Military Classics of Ancient China.