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Fourth- and Fifth-Generation Warfare:
Technology and Perceptions
DR. WASEEM AHMAD QURESHI*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ………………………………………………………………………………………………187
INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………………………………………………..188
I. FOURTH-GENERATION WARFARE (4GW)………………………………………….190
A. Asymmetric Fight Involving Nonstate Actors and Cultures ………..191
B. Mercenaries and Shadow Wars ……………………………………………..193
C. A Battle on Moral Level and Light Infantry……………………………..198
D. Information and Technology………………………………………………….202
E. Fighting 4GW ……………………………………………………………………..204
II. TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSION AS A TOOL OF WARFARE…………………….208
III. FIFTH-GENERATION WARFARE (5GW): A BATTLE OF PERCEPTIONS ……..209
A. Fighting 5GW ……………………………………………………………………..213
IV. CONCLUSION ……………………………………………………………………………….214
ABSTRACT
The composition of warfare is changing. There is an increasing
transformation in the traditional aspects of waging a war: conventional
techniques of warfare are in decline and newer tactics and tools of warfare,
such as information warfare, asymmetric warfare, media propaganda, and
hybrid warfare, are filling the gap, blurring the lines between combatant
and noncombatant, and between wartime and peacetime. The basic
framework of modern warfare was elaborated by Carl von Clausewitz in
his magnus opus On War. He defined modern warfare between states as
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