As I mentioned over at tdaxp, there seems to be three basic sorts of 5GW:
- The insurgent 5GW (the classical formulation)
- The state-within 5GW (where a clique inside the host society attempts to transform the host society)
- The state-without 5GW (where an operational arm of a government attacks a different society)
It seems that the latter two are capable of swarming, at least in principle, while the first is not.
Are these descriptions correct? Are there others?
Okay, I'll bite.
The SEI 5GW? (singular on the "I")
Is an SEI 5GW a sub-class for an insurgent 5GW?
Good question. What might differentiate them?
Nothing fundamental -- both are insurgent actions to transform a host society -- so it would appear to be a sub-class, in say the way that a 5GW launched by the head of a bureaucracy on a host society would be a sub-class of a state-within 5GW.
Could the three you list actually be stages of one kind of 5GW?
I don't include only a consideration of a single individual or small group using the larger bodies as unwitting proxies, but also that those proxies themselves may gain an understanding of 5GW and use 5GW against the next target. They may believe they are the originators of whatever 5GW they are enacting; but they have themselves been trained, influenced, etc., by the person or group that really began much earlier.