How warfare has evolved (and what it means to us today)

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John Rogers:

In his book The Sling and the Stone, Col. Thomas Hammes USMC expands on the idea of the evolution of warfare...

I'm paraphrasing like a bastard, but 4th Generation Warfare moves past direct destruction of your opponent's forces (1&2 Gen) and even past 3rd Gen, where one attacks the opponent's command, control and logistics, and instead takes the fight directly to the political will of the opponent. Most importantly, the 4th Gen army is not bound to the traditional battlespace. 4GW is trans-national, highly networked, and is not bound by the army of maneuver limits on a battlefield.

This is actually part of a much longer post that goes into some detail about how you can view the current struggle between Big Media and the pesky forces of file sharing in the same way.

If MGM v. Grokster is important to you (like it is to me), you should read his post.