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In early January I wrote a post called Lakota After 4GW. It was one of the first things I wrote about Fourth-Generation War. Discussions with Mark and Larry convinced me that the Great Sioux War was in no way a 4GW, but rather a Pre-Modern War.

Larry was kind enough to edit my original version. His new version is available in Microsoft Word ".doc" format.

His afterward is reprinted in full

Amodern war is a subset of a Pre-Modern War. The methods are the same except more refined. I am not so sure but I believe, this is the US army as it is today. It wants to completely hold the enemy harmless with out being squeamish (religious). However, Modern Warfare will never be strong enough to defeat a 4GW. This is because Modern Warfare gets its Strength by posing as a horizontal force (Kind of like your Zombie networks). The 4GW is a horizontal force posing as a vertical force (wolf in sheep's clothing). While the 4GW may be smaller than the vertical force that it is opposing, the strength it possesses is modified with an exponent, where as the modern warfare force has a one to one modification. The 4GW at twice the strength would need to be handled by, I would guess, 4 times the vertical force.