Hi!
I blog under the name PurpleSlog.
The genesis of my interest in Fifth Generation War theory (5GW) comes from the the early/original 5GW post (and the comments) by ZenPundit, TDAXP, Coming Anarchy (though the post no longer seems to exist) and Curtis/PhaticCommunion.
My own past contributions have been modest: some questions and comments on other blogger's post, and a few post of my own at purpleslog.wordpress.com such as:
- Boiling the Frog 5GW Style
- 5GW Will Hide in the Sea of Conspiracy Theories to Avoid Discovery
- Bizzaro Fred Phelps and 5GW Speculation
- 5GW Thought: Would a Goal of a 5GW Organization Be To Reduce the Resiliency of the Target State
- Hint of a Leftist-Tinged 5GW
- A Short 5GW Tutorial for ThunerPig
I want to thank Curtis for inviting me to participate in this group blog.
Unfortunately, the timing of the launch of D5GW and the spasm of 5GW posting around the blogosphere coincided with a big down turn in blogging activity. This was partially because of work, partially because of laziness, and partially because I was enjoying a spurt of non-blog book reading.
I have been keeping up on what others have been writing and I am ramping up my blogging again. I really like the attempts at defining 5GW and even finding common ground with Robb's GG concept (I have read his book now and will be blogging on it real soon now).
I have a series posts mostly ready to go, starting with 6 possible archetypes for 5GW:
- Puppet Masters
- Architects of the Future: The Socio-Political Entrepreneurship Style of 5GW
- Memetic Engineers
- Strategic Citizen 5GW
- Global Guerrillas as 5GW
- Super HiTechers as 5GW
Update: I corrected a typo in the Coming Anarchy link.
The article on ComingAnarchy still exists, I just changed the links around. There is no longer an /archives/ folder. I will put a rewrite rule in the .htaccess to make sure that old links still connect.
Cheers.
PurpleSlog,
I'm looking forward to your discussion on archetypes! The last three particularly interest me, at present, although I wonder if all would fall under the heading of "Memetic Engineers." If they are distinguished from that archetype, I'm curious how you would distinguish them. (All right, I suppose the last in your list would not necessarily fall under that category...)