I have to apologize more often. I do so to Ted O'Connor and I get this gem from Christopher Thompson as a result:

It is difficult to have to endure the time consuming process of COIN. It is equally difficult to endure the lack of 5GW to start limiting our exposure to 4GW.

That, in a nutshell, is a brilliant definition of 5GW--at least in function. Fifth-generation warfare is designed primarily to limit one's exposure to Fourth-Generation Warfare. KISS, baby! No, I wouldn't see 5GW preventing earlier generations. That's easy enough to figure out and be obvious about (hell, being really obvious about it is much of the delivery). But 5GW should be a leap-frogging of the bloody-nose strategy of the 4GWers. How achieved? It ain't about not caring how much you bleed, but figuring out how not to bleed whatsoever. You are self-healing, real-time. That's why I'm with Enterra.