Fourth Generation Operations Principles For The Long War Analysis

The article Fourth generation operations: principles for the ‘Long War’ written by Michael J. Artelli and Richard F. Deckro is a fantastic article that goes over the ways in which strategies or war have changed over the years and have adapted and built off of each other to give armies a better advantage. This article specifically talks about the ways that the fourth generation of war operations came to be as well as how it is used today. The article does an excellent job of talking about the previous generation and the evolutionary perspective that brought to fourth generation of warfare operations to life. The transition from generation to generation is not black and white. It happens over time as new technologies and ideas are created and thought up. Similar to evolution in the scientific world, this transition happens gradually but has four defined periods of modern warfare that each build off of each other. You could not have arrived at the fourth generation without the previous three and the article does an excellent job of making that clear. The first generation of modern warfare operations used many …show more content…
Artelli and Richard F. Deckro is a great article and goes thoroughly over the principles and tactics of wars past and how they evolved through wins and losses to give way for the current tactics of the fourth generation of warfare to combat th3e issues of today such as terrorism. It shows how one form came to be based on the improvements of the prior and how we could not have arrived at the fourth generation of military operations without the first, second and third and all the battles that occurred in the meantime. It makes the reader wonder what the next generation of warfare and military tactics may have in store. All we know now is that it will come to be based on a combination of the first four generations and technological advances as well as new ideas and