"Fifth generation warfare has arrived and is irreversibly changing the character and nature of human conflict." go.
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I think some folks may have missed my sardonic point.The author is claiming that character AND nature of war have changed. All the Clausewitzians in my feed should be howling for his blood. Personally I think this classic distinction is over-discussed, but this is a big claim
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FWIW, I see us not in a new 'generation' of warfare but (because everything is Rome for me), in a 'frontiers' stage of security problems. Hegemony limits conflicts, especially on the small end, channeling violence into 'unconventional' but mostly ancient styles of warfare.
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While I understand the 'generations' of war idea - in as much as it is heavily focused on technology (and confines itself essentially entirely to the last 400 years, with the rest of human history being the 'first generation' - I think it's more helpful to think in genres of war.
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In any event, using non-state actors, disinformation and such to strike at the political structure of an opponent in 'non-kinetic' ways isn't new. Demosthenes complains endlessly about Philip II doing exactly this in 330 BC, bribing Athenian diplomats...
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