Threat of Fourth Generation Warfare

With immense pleasure this site hosts the following guest article contributed by Rebus 21.

Guest commentary by Rebus 21:

Events in Western Mindanao at the present time all point towards escalating fourth generation war.

4G warfare is defined as amorphous (without shape and specific definition), stateless, borderless, non-conventional war. However, it is also timeless. For demonstration, the overly protracted conflict between Israel and selected Middle East neighbors have overblown into 4G warfare.

In its most meaningful manifestation as the burning of Islamic villages at the outset of the 1980s in Mindanao that led to the long-standing Muslim secessionist posture and the rise of highly non-conventional war in Western Mindanao that spilled over disproportionately to Central Mindanao after the late Salamat Hashim broke ties with Misuari Nur.

This is being repeated in a formerly Islamic trading capital town, Zamboanga City now populated also by a dominantly Christian population who learned to speak a language that is half Spanish and half vernacular dialect.

Failure in negotiations and lack of crisis scenario planning and management, futures modeling and war gaming exercise among many other significant and trivial factors, brought the present situation in Western Mindanao to what it is today. Read more from here.

Related articles:

Business Mirror: Increasing number of Zamboanga casualties

Bloomberg.com on spreading violence in Zamboanga

Xinhua.net warning about threat escalating

ANC: Analyst says government must listen to Misuari

Sunstar: Cebu raises alert level

Philippine Star: Government force augmentation - 500 Scout Rangers sent to Zamboanga

Blogger: Is Sabah and Sarawak going to be attacked

CNN early news on hostage taking in Zamboanga

Centering: Post SONA 2008

Some People Just Can Take So Ayan Na

My dear allevii, I like mushrooms too! You failed to mention mushroom omelet, it is heavenly! Garlic sauce or catsup could really titillate your palette and make the omelet taste oh-so oh… oh… oh… wonderful!!! Read more on sona bashings here…

The target of the bashers -- full text of GMA's SONA

Also a target of the bashers -- video of SONA courtesy of Brando

Sen. Mar Roxas' secretary

I like science fiction but nothing beats this stupid little story about the secretary of Sen. Mar Roxas who's been going around telling everyone of the secrets talked about in her boss' office. Hehehe. Naughty allevii!!!

The Little Secretary and the Language Police Read more about the post here

To stop or not to stop

At another time, another place I would stop blogging.

Some of the best bloggers I know have stopped blogging. I am not really sure why. But it does puzzle me no end. Why drop out of something that is wonderful? Something that is fulfilling, if to some extent also revealingly embarrassing?

One would say, welcome to the world of transparency. I used to dream about 20 or more years ago about a fashion line made up of transparent bags, blouses, pants, even undergarments. That's how overly visual, perchance, voyeuristique? one can get. Suddenly there it all was, a line of transparent garments. Not perfect, as such, but positively to the tune of my real preferences and even favorites. Hmmm…

Then comes blogging: where bloggers, figuratively, suddenly shed everything they are wearing and become transparent. That no one is spared from wearing her or his birthday suit is a fact.

One of my colleagues in trans communications said that even the mental lisps of idiots are bared in full view of the world public in a blog. The brain damage and other defects of fools are wholly unmasked. The psychic dysfunction of those without any redeeming morals and values are unraveled.

Even criminals are suddenly discovered for what they really are. Its a totally depictive and picturesque medium, this web logging.

It will be the very nerve of the coming revolution.

But what really concerns me is that hopefully any revolution in the future must first be able to eliminate the irredeemable fools and nincompoops and notorious ogres in our midst. And I don't particularly like to give reference only to the ones who don't know how to spell, don't understand math, or simply count whole numbers. :)

For after all, that has never, ever been, nor will ever be, my advocacy.