Not much honor in the revolution: kill or be hanged as a traitor. They didn't mess around, or wait around to be hanged.

War is hell.

Our enemies have no sense of decency. They will not hesitate to attack civilians. They will not protect their own civilians. No military objective is off limits (they will attack hospitals, cultural sites,etc.) They will renege on every agreement we make with them. We have to wage total war against them.

5GW is what happens when the world's disaffected direct their desperation at the most obvious symbol of everything they lack, taking advantage of the tactics and battlefields pioneered by more highly organized fourth-gen warriors. The symbol is the United States, the world's sole super-power. And the fifth-gen fighters' weapon of choice is political "stalemate," contends Marine Lt. Col. Stanton Coerr, in a new piece in Marine Corps Gazette. "5GW fighters will win by ... point[ ing ] out the impotence of secular military might. ... These fighters win by not losing, while we lose by not winning."