Hmmm… a DDOS attack [1] would be more 3GW or 4GW… Perhaps a 5GW enemy of blogs would merely set up blogger's owners in some conflict with the American people (by convincing them to censor themselves ), thus bringing about a take-down of blogger without actually getting their hands dirty…

I'm happy that Coming Anarchy [3] and Phatic Communion [4] like the idea of formlessness.

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/05/04/network-politics-introduction-net-attacks-and-counter-attacks.html
[2] http://blog.outer-court.com/censored/
[3] http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2006/03/10/truly-formless-5gw/
[4] http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/theory/

Not necessarily. Let's say a 5GW campaign were under way and I had a “fingertip feeling” that led me to actually “see” it. It's entirely likely if I tried to tell other people what was going on that they would simply dismiss me as paranoid and a conspiracy nut, even accuse me of McCarthyism and witch-hunting. If the 5th generation warrior is doing something illegal he will eventually draw the attention of law enforcement. But if the 5GW tactics are legal, then law enforcement won't be a problem. Which means that citizens who become aware of the 5GW campaign will have to act on their own within the law but outside of government and operate a counter-5GW campaign. Nothing remains secret forever especially in a free society, but legal activities can be done out in the open without attracting attention because they appear to be run-of-the-mill and normal, certainly nothing to be concerned about. Free societies offer the 5th generation warrior the ability to “hide in plain sight” and still be able to pull off a victory without the loser being aware of what happened.

5GW forces can be harmed in two ways: qualitatively or quantitatively.

A qualitative action against a 5GW would try to “evaporate” or “materialize” it into another style of organization. For instance, trying to materialize a 5GW force into a 4GW force would make it much easier to eliminate, because a 4GW force must be about 20x more powerful to win than a 5GW force.

A quantitative action would just try to scoop members out of the 5GW network.

Any action — whether a directed against by a State in response to a finger-tip feeling, or an culture's autoimmune response to the visible activities of the 5GW organization — that quantitatively or qualitatively harms the 5GW network reduces its chances of success. Being recognized as a threat is especially dangerous, because the state would begin quantitatively reducing the network while trying to qualitatively change it at the same time: a double whammy.

You are corrected that being noticed as such may be harmless.

(This raises interesting questions as to the identity of 5GW networks)

There appears to be 5GW attack on Blogger lately as I am being thwarted yet again in my efforts to post