We are in the middle of a world-changing war right now.

Oh, I don't mean the war in Ukraine, the one not all the media are asking you to focus your attention on.

Yes, that conflict continues to escalate, and every day there are new stories about provocations and threats that could lead to a nuclear exchange, but that's not the war I'm referring to.

Now the war I'm talking about is an even broader war. A war that is taking place everywhere

on the globe even as I speak and that involves virtually everyone on the planet, young and old,

male and female, military and civilian.

It is the war of every government against its own population, and every international institution

against free humanity. This is no ordinary war, however. Most of the victims of this warfare

aren't even able to identify it as war, nor do they understand that they are combatants

in it. It's called Fifth Generation Warfare and I'm here to tell you all about it.

I am James Corbett of the Corbett report and this is your guide to Fifth Generation Warfare.

What is Fifth Generation Warfare?

So what is the first four generations of warfare anyway?

And come to think of it, what were the first four generations of warfare?

Good questions.

For an in-depth answer to the latter question, you'll want to read

The Changing Face of War into the Fourth Generation, a 1989 article from the Marine Corps

Gazette, co-authored by William S. Linde, and you'll want to watch

Lynn's presentation on Fourth Generation Warfare and the end of the Westphalian order.

This city and every capital in the world is completely oblivious to the fact that it is caught up in a change in warfare so great that it not only makes our current defense and foreign

policies obsolete, it essentially makes obsolete the whole framework within which we think about defense and foreign policy.

The change is what I call the rise of fourth generation war, and this is specifically the fourth generation of modern

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