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by James Corbett
April 18,
2023
from
CorbettReport Website
We are in
the middle
of a
world-changing war.
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.
TRANSCRIPT OF
BELOW VIDEO
We are in the middle of a world-changing war right now.
Oh, I don't mean the war in Ukraine, the one that 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.
No, 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?
What is fifth-generation 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. Lind - and you'll want to watch "William
S. Lind & Philip Giraldi - Fourth Generation Warfare & The Deep
State."
WILLIAM S. LIND:
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 war.
[...]
We now think of
foreign affairs and defense within the framework of the
nation-state. Armed forces are designed to fight other state
armed forces. But that reality is changing.
[...]
What's
happening around the world today in more and more places is that
state armed forces find them find themselves fighting not other
state armed forces, but fourth-generation forces. Non-state
forces.
SOURCE:
The State and Modern War
In a nutshell, Lind
et al.'s thesis is that the "modern age" of warfare began with the
Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which, Lind opines,
"gave the state
a monopoly on war."
From that point on,
modern warfare went through three generations, namely:
-
First-generation warfare:
the tactics of line and column, developed in the era of the
smoothbore musket
-
Second-generation warfare:
the tactics of indirect fire and mass movement, developed in
the era of the rifled musket, breechloaders, barbed wire and
the machine gun
-
Third-generation warfare:
the tactics of nonlinear movement, including maneuver and
infiltration, developed in response to the increase in
battlefield firepower in WWI.
This, according to
Lind and his co-authors, brought us to the late-20th
century, when the nation-state began to lose its monopoly on war and
military combat returned to a decentralized form.
In this era - the
era of fourth-generation warfare - the line between
"civilian" and "military" become blurred, armies tend to engage in
counter-insurgency operations rather than military battles, and
enemies are often motivated by ideology and religion, making
psychological operations more important than ever.
But, some argue, we
have now entered a new era of warfare, namely fifth-generation
warfare.
There is still much
debate about what defines fifth-generation warfare, how we know
we're engaged in it, or even if it exists at all (Lind, for one,
rejects the concept).
Various scholars
have made their own attempts at defining fifth-generation warfare
(5GW), like
"the battle of perceptions and
information"
"a relative reduction in military
violence" has led to "an increase in political, economic,
and technological violence"
If academic debates
about the changing nature of warfare are your thing, then there's
plenty of reading for you to do on the subject, from 'The
Handbook of 5GW', to a slew
of academic articles...
But for the
purposes of this editorial, I'm not interested in that
debate.
In fact, we're
going to use a decidedly non-academic definition of fifth-generation
warfare from an
Al Jazeera article as our starting point:
"The basic idea
behind this term [5GW] is that in the modern era, wars are not
fought by armies or guerrillas, but in the minds of common
citizens."
There are two
important things to note about this definition.
The first is that
fifth-generation warfare is not waged against either standing armies
of nation-states or guerrilla insurgents but against everyday
citizens.
The second is that
this war is not being fought in a battlefield somewhere, but in the
mind...
I will expand the
definition somewhat to include the fact that this war is being waged
at all levels, not just the mental.
The gist of it is
this:
Fifth-generation warfare is an all-out war that is being waged
against all of us by our governments and the international
organizations to which they belong.
It is being
waged against each and every one of us right now, and it is a
battle for full-spectrum dominance over every single aspect of
your life:
Governments the
world over are working with corporations to leverage technology to
control you down to the genomic level, and they will not stop until
each and every person who resists them is subdued or eliminated.
The most incredible
part of all of this is that,
so few know that the war is even taking
place, let alone that they are a combatant in it.
The best way to
understand this war is to look at some of the ways that it is being
waged against us.
PART 2 -
INFORMATION WARFARE
Stop me if you've
heard this before, but this is an infowar and
the
powers-that-shouldn't-be are engaged in "a war for your mind."
Of course, you have
heard of "Infowars" if you've been in the alternative media space
for any length of time.
And for good
reason:
information
warfare is an absolutely essential part of the war on everyone
that defines fifth-generation warfare.
The most obvious
way to understand this is to look at the actual military forces that
are engaging in
psychological operations against their own citizens.
DAN
DICKS:
It says
here:
"A letter
from the Nova Scotia government sent out to residents to
warn about a pack of wolves on the loose in the province was
forged by Canadian military personnel as part of a
propaganda training mission that went off the rails.
"The letter
told residents to be wary of wolves that had been
reintroduced into the area by the provincial and federal
governments and warned the animals were now roaming the
Annapolis Valley.
The letter,
which later became public, sparked concern and questions
among residents but was later branded as 'fake' by the Nova
Scotia government which didn't know the military was behind
the deception.
The
training also involved using a loudspeaker to generate wolf
sounds, the Canadian Forces confirmed to this newspaper."
Guys, let let
that sink in for a second.
They created a
fake
letter from the government, put it out there saying that there's
dangerous wolves, and they set up loud speakers in the area
projecting out wolf noises!
This isn't just
research, you know.
This isn't just a training exercise.
They're
actively engaging in this psychological operation to scare
people using loudspeakers.
This is
unbelievable
SOURCE:
Canadian Military Fake Wolves Fear
Campaign Exposed! but You Won'T Believe What They Are Doing
Next!
But it's not just
out-and-out military operations by soldiers dressed up in camo
fatigues that are part of this fifth-generation infowar.
In the war on
everyone, the establishment uses every means at its disposal to
manipulate the public's perception.
Thus, Richard
Stengel - the former editor of Time who bestowed Time's
person of the year (dis)honour on You! back in 2006 - is happy
to chair a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) conversation in which he
defends the US government's use of
propaganda against its own citizens.
RICHARD STENGEL:
Basically, every country creates their own narrative story.
And, you know,
my old job at the state department was what people used to joke
as the chief propagandist job. We haven't talked about
propaganda. I'm not against propaganda.
Every country
does it and they have to do it to their own population and I
don't necessarily think it's that awful.
SOURCE:
Political Disruptions: Combating Disinformation and Fake News
Or take Hill &
Knowlton - the PR firm hired by the Kuwaiti government to create
the Nayirah deception in the First Gulf War...
"NAYIRAH":
They took the babies out of incubators... They took the
incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor.
SOURCE:
Human Rights Violations in Kuwait
...who were
retained by the WHO in 2020 to identify celebrity "influencers"
who could be used to amplify the scamdemic messaging.
ANNOUNCER:
The One World Together At Home event showcased a who's who of
top music stars and celebrities, who came together over the
weekend for a special broadcast of music, comedy and personal
messages, all in gratitude to those around the world on the
front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY:
So what can we do? We've got to take care of our healthworkers
and we've got to buy them time by taking care of ourselves.
ANNOUNCER:
The event was led by the World Health Organization and the
non-profit group, Global Citizen.
SOURCE:
Celebrities Perform Virtual 'One World' Concert: 'A Love Letter
to the World'
Or take the UK
government's
Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours, which
outright admits that,
they use psychological techniques to
manipulate the public into fearing
the scamdemic, a move that some
of the panel
members called "totalitarian"... and no one bats an eyelid.
Perhaps the most
insidious part of the fifth-generation infowar is that it has become
so normalized that everyone knows it is happening, but no one thinks
of it as warfare...!
Of course everything
is "advertising" and "propaganda."
And of course it's being
used to manipulate our behavior.
That's just how the
world works, isn't it?
But we ignore the
real nature of the infowar at our own peril. After all, I have often
observed that this is a war for your mind and that the most
contested battlespace in the world is the space between your ears.
You might have
thought I meant that metaphorically, but actually I mean it quite
literally.
Which brings us
to...
NEUROLOGICAL WARFARE
If you listen to
Dr. James Giordano speak without listening to what he's
saying, you get the impression he is merely an articulate,
well-informed scientist who is passionate about his research.
When you do listen
to what he's saying, however - or even just look at his
PowerPoint slides, like the
"NeuroS/T for NSID" slide - you realize that he is Dr.
Strangelove.
Or, if not Dr.
Strangelove himself, then at least Dr. Strangelove's spokesman.
But it's not
nuclear Armageddon that motivates Giordano, it's what he calls
"weapons of mass disruption" - the various technologies for
neurological intervention that the US military and militaries around
the world are developing.
These include (in
Giordano's well-rehearsed patter) the "drugs, bugs, toxins and
devices" that can either enhance or disrupt the cognitive functions
of their target, like the "high CNS aggregation" nanoparticulates
that, according to Giordano,
"clump in the brain or in the
vasculature" and "create essentially what looks like a hemorrhagic
diathesis."
As sci-fi as this
sounds, he insists these
nanoparticles (and many, many other
horrific neurological weapons) are already
being worked on:
JAMES
GIORDANO:
The idea
here is that I can get with something called high CNS
aggregation material that is essentially invisible to the naked
eye and even to most scanners because it is so small that it
selectively goes through most levels of filter porosity.
These are then
inhaled - either through the nasal mucosa or absorbed through
the oral mucosa.
They have high
CNS affinity.
They clump in
the brain or in the vasculature and they create essentially what
looks like a hemorrhagic diathesis; in other words, a hemorrhage
predisposition or a clot predisposition in the brain.
What I've done
is I've created a stroking agent and it's very, very difficult
to gain attribution to do that. I can use that on a variety of
levels, from the individual to the group. Highly disruptive.
And, in fact,
this is one of the things that has been entertained and examined
to some extent by my colleagues in NATO and to those who are
working on the worst use of neurobiological sciences to create
populational disruption.
Very, very
worried about the potential for these nano particular ages to be
CNS aggregating agents to cause neural disruption.
SOURCE:
Brain Science from Bench to
Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of Neuroweapons | CGSR
Seminar
And just in case
you didn't get the point, you'll notice he illustrates his slide
with an image of a human brain in the crosshairs of one of these
neurological weapons.
There's nothing
hard to understand about the picture that is being painted here: we
are at war with an enemy who is literally targeting our brains.
But yet again, it
isn't just the literal use of neurological weapons by conventional
militaries in conventional warfare settings that we - the largely
unwitting combatants of the fifth-generation war on everyone - have
to worry about.
As my listeners
already know, avowed
technocrat Elon Musk is trying to sell his Neuralink brain chip
technology to the hipster crowd as a cool and sexy way to upgrade
your cognition... or so that the coming AI
godhead will have mercy on us. Or something like that...
Anyway, you should
totally stick the Neuralink in your head at your earliest
opportunity...!
And definitely don't
ask any questions about why so many of the macaque monkeys and other
test animals that Neuralink was using as test animals in their
"brain-machine interface" experiment have
dropped dead.
To anyone not yet a
victim of the information warfare operation designed to prepare
humanity for the coming
transhuman dystopia, all of this sounds
insane.
But for those who have fallen
for the infowars psyop of the enemy, these types of mind-altering
technologies are exactly as advertised:
exciting
opportunities to "upgrade" the feeble biological wetware we call
our brain...!
But if you think
you can avoid the biological aspect of the fifth-generation war by
simply avoiding the brain chip, you're out of luck.
You're also going
to have to deal with...
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
The biowarfare
narrative is, understandably, back at the forefront of the public
consciousness in recent years, not just because of the scamdemic but
also because of the questions being raised about the US-backed
Ukrainian biolabs and whatever work they may or may not be doing
on Russia's doorstep.
This below picture,
for example, comes straight
from Army.mil, which was only too happy to brag as recently as
last July that US soldiers were conducting,
"hands-on
training and field training exercises with Ukrainian troops in
laboratory and field environments" that included ensuring the
readiness of "deployable mobile laboratories."
Nothing to see
here, folks. (Perhaps the only surprising thing about the article is
that they haven't scrubbed it from their website... yet.)
Yet, once again, if
we are only thinking of biowarfare in conventional military terms,
we neglect the much, much wider operation to manipulate, control and
weaponize all aspects of,
our environment, our food supply and even
our genome itself for the purposes of the ruling oligarchs...
This
fifth-generation biological warfare being waged against us includes:
I'm sure you can
fill in the blanks with myriad other examples of the attacks upon
the world's air, water and biome that constitute this unconstrained
fifth-generation biological war being waged against us.
When and if you do put
the pieces of this puzzle together and seek to warn people en masse
that they are under attack, your ability to resist this agenda will
be predicated on your ability to use your accumulated resources
(your wealth) to foster communities of resistance.
Don't worry,
though; the enemy has that domain covered, too....
ECONOMIC WARFARE
Given the events of
recent weeks, even the sleepiest of the sleepy now realize that we
are in a period of economic warfare.
This war, too, has
its conventional aspects.
On the 2D board,
we've seen the NATO empire launch its Weapons
of Financial Destruction at Russia in recent weeks, and,
exactly as
predicted, it has resulted in,
the consolidation of a convenient
geopolitical bogeyman bloc and a gigantic loss of faith in the
international monetary system itself...
And, also as
predicted, it has supplied the "Problem" and "Reaction" needed
for the technocrats to present their pre-determined "Solution" of Central
Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
Just ask Larry
Fink, CEO of
BlackRock:
"The
war will prompt countries to re-evaluate their currency
dependencies.
Even before the war, several governments were looking to play a
more active role in digital currencies and define the regulatory
frameworks under which they operate."
This is not merely
a battle between nation-states or even competing power blocs.
This is a battle
being waged by every authoritarian power structure and every
government (but I repeat myself) against their own citizens for
control of the most important resource of all: their wallets.
Yes, we are seeing
the beginning of a truly world-historic moment:
the collapse of
Pax Americana, the death of the dollar reserve system, and the
beginning of an entirely new monetary paradigm, the "Central
Bank Digital Currency" (CBDC) system of programmable money that will be
able to algorithmically control when, how and if you are allowed
to transact in the economy at all.
We only have to
look to recent
events in Canada to understand what this will look like...
This perfect
control of humanity down to the level of being able to witness and,
ultimately, to allow or disallow any transaction between any
individuals at any time, represents the apotheosis of technocracy
and one of the key objectives of the fifth-generation war itself.
As this nightmare
comes closer and closer to reality, all seems hopeless.
But then again,
that's exactly the point...!
THE REAL WAR
I could go
on. And on and on and on...
But hopefully you
get the point by now:
There is a
world war happening right now.
It is a
fifth-generation war (or whatever you want to call it).
It is being
waged across every domain simultaneously.
It is a war for
full-spectrum dominance of every battlefield and every terrain,
from the farthest reaches of the globe (and
beyond) to the inner spaces of your body and even to your
innermost thoughts.
And it is a war
on you...!
Recognizing this,
the task we face seems nearly insurmountable.
How are we to
fight back in a war that the majority of people don't even
recognize is taking place?
How do we fight
back against an enemy that has spent decades refining its
weapons of economic and military and technological and
biological control?
How do we fight
back in a war that is not taking place on two fronts or even
three fronts, but in every domain and battlespace simultaneously...?
Framed like this,
our prospects do indeed appear hopeless.
But therein lies
the key:
our perception that it is our duty to "fight back" against
the enemy in their war on their battlefield on their terms
of engagement is itself a narrative frame.
And that narrative itself is
a weapon that is being wielded against us in the battle for our
minds.
You'll allow me
space here to quote myself at length because this is a point I have
made many times before, perhaps most notably in my conversation on "The
Anatomy of the New World Order" that I had with Julian
Charles on The
Mind Renewed podcast ten years ago:
I'm intrigued
by the idea that we've been given false templates to follow in
terms of solving our problems - one being to "fight our enemies"
- templates provided for us through so much social conditioning
and the media.
Here, the idea
is that we must find the heart or the head of the organization
and somehow kill that person or that group, or whatever it is;
eliminate that, and everything will magically turn to the
better!
Thinking in
broad terms, that false template appears in virtually every
science fiction dystopia you've ever seen:
if it turns out well
in the end, it's only because they have managed to decapitate
the Head of the Beast, whether it be The Lord of the Rings or Tron,
or any such movie.
I think that's
fundamentally and completely the wrong way to look at it,
because at the end of the day the particular individuals who may
or may not be holding the 'Ring of Power' are replaceable.
Indeed, there
are very many people who would be chomping at the bit to get
into that position of power should that old guard be swept away
for whatever reason.
I think what's
needed is a more fundamental revolution:
not of overthrowing a
specific instantiation of this idea, but of overthrowing the
idea altogether.
And that
can only come, I think, from building up an alternative system
to which people actually want to apply themselves.
I think we
have to detach ourselves from this system that we've been woven
into.
Unfortunately
that's probably as difficult to do as that analogy would make it
sound, because we are so woven into the fabric of society that
it's difficult to imagine extricating ourselves from all these
processes.
We rely for so
many of our daily needs on this vast, unwieldy corporate system
that ties into these very organizations that pull the strings of
governmental institutions, that it can seem quite overwhelming.
How can a single individual affect this?
But I think we
have to look for any and every possible point at which we can
start to detach ourselves from those systems of control, and to
start to reassert some kind of independence.
That can be an
extremely small thing like, just for example:
instead of
buying groceries at the grocery store, perhaps buy them at a
farmers' market, or at least some of your groceries.
Or perhaps you
could grow them yourself in a vegetable garden.
Something of
that sort is a tiny thing on the individual level, but I think
it's the only thing in the long run that can lead to the type of
society we want to bring to fruition.
Again, I think,
it's small things like that, if we start to apply ourselves with
diligence and perseverance, that will eventually be able to
overthrow this.
But,
unfortunately, as I say, we are on the cusp of this scientific
revolution which makes scientific dictatorship possible, so
unfortunately we don't necessarily have generations of time.
That gives a
time perspective to all this - I won't say it's a time bomb -
but you get the idea.
We don't have a lot of time to waste...
We have a
choice.
Either we
continue going into this technological, corporate matrix -
which involves even things like buying the next generation
of iPhone, which they're already saying is going to have its
own fingerprint scanning technology, and all of these
corporate, military, Big Brother elements to it that we're
willingly signing up to every day of our lives, and actually
paying money for - or we start to create alternative
structures which don't rely on that system.
It's a choice
that we have to make in our lives, I would say more quickly than
has been apparent at any other time in human history.
My regular viewers
will understand what I am proposing here: the creation of a parallel
society.
We will not achieve
this by asking for more scraps from the masters table, or by gently
complying as we are herded into ever more constrictive technological
pens, or by thinking that we can win this war by engaging the enemy
in their controlled domain.
We can only achieve
this by creating our own table, our own economy and our own
communities of interest.
This will require
the long and difficult task of increasing our independence from the
authoritarian systems in every domain:
the information
domain, the food domain, the health domain, the monetary domain,
the mental domain and every other contested battle-space in this
all-out, fifth-generation war.
Easier said than
done, of course. But there is no alternative...
Some will say,
"But won't they
come after that parallel society?" as if that is a rebuttal to
what I have laid out here...
The point is that
you are already the target of the enemy in a war that most people
but dimly understand is happening.
Yes, the enemy will
come after you.
But they are
already dominating you in more ways than any one person can
fully understand.
That does not stop
just because you comply with their demands or take part in their
system.
We must stop
playing their game.
We must stop
fighting their war.
We must stop
ceding our power, our authority, our time, our attention, our
energy and our resources to engaging the enemy in their terms in
their battlefield.
We must create
our own parallel society on our own terms.
And so we
rediscover an
old piece of wisdom (also
HERE and
HERE)...
To paraphrase:
"Fifth-generation warfare is a strange game. The only winning
move is not to play."
War is over... if
we want it...
VIDEO
Also
HERE,
HERE and
HERE...
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