FMFM1A 4th Generation Warfare: Fourth Generation War

FMFM1A 4th Generation Warfare Fourth Generation War

FMFM1A 4th Generation Warfare

Fourth Generation War

Army · misc · Jan 2005 · 46 pages

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In fact, before the Peace of Westphalia, many different entities waged wars. Families waged wars, as did clans and tribes. Ethnic groups and races waged war. Religions and cultures waged war. So did business enterprises and gangs. These wars were often manysided, not two-sided, and alliances shifted constantly. Not only did many different entities wage war, they used many different means. Few possessed anything we would recognize as a formal army, navy or Marine Corps (Marines were often present, as the fighting men on galleys). Often, when war came, whoever was fighting would hire mercenaries, both on land and at sea. In other cases, such as tribal war, the "army" was any male old enough, but not too old, to carry a weapon. In addition to campaigns and battles, war was waged by bribery, assassination, treachery, betrayal, even dynastic marriage.

DesignationFMFM1A 4th Generation Warfare

EditionJan 2005

StatusSuperseded

Pages46

FunctionDoctrine Philosophy

CollectionRecent Archive

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