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.
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.
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.
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. 🙂
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.
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!
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.