The Fourth Generation Warfare

摘要

Over the past decade or so, the use of term Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW) has become a culture in the Pakistani military circles and higher institutes of learning. Following some recent discussions at the Pakistan Navy War College and the fact that no senior U.S military officer (to the best of my knowledge) had ever used the term 4GW in the war theatres since October 2001, I asked Col John Keenan a former US Marine Corp officer and the Chief Editor of the U.S Marine Corps Gazette, if the U.S military has formally embraced the concept.