4GW Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/4gw Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:11:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 182200397 Domain Query: Neo-Byzantine Intrigues https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/domain-query-neo-byzantine-intrigues.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/domain-query-neo-byzantine-intrigues.html#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:11:54 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22286 We are back, at long last, after a lengthy break, with a new Domain Query podcast. Once again, we are answering a question from LRFotS Randale6, who draws an intriguing parallel between the current, parlous, state of the FUSA, and the old Byzantine Empire. Our friend argues that, like the Byzantines, the descendants of the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/domain-query-neo-byzantine-intrigues.html/feed 6 22286 Manoeuvre war and 404 https://didacticmind.com/2022/08/manoeuvre-war-and-404.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/08/manoeuvre-war-and-404.html#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:49:06 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=16176 When it comes to the 404 War, if you only listen to the American side through the mouthpieces of the Pentaloons and the State Department, you will come away with the distinct impression that the US military does not take the Russian military at all seriously. The argument seems to be that Russia is bogged […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/08/manoeuvre-war-and-404.html/feed 28 16176 Mockingbird, mindwar, mindcrime https://didacticmind.com/2022/04/mockingbird-mindwar-mindcrime.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/04/mockingbird-mindwar-mindcrime.html#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:58:14 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=15024 Have you watched the Western presstitutes of late, reporting on the Banderastani War, and wondered why the hell they all say things that seem to have absolutely ZERO connection to the reality on the ground? If you have been paying even a modicum of attention, you will quickly realise that there is something very strange […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/04/mockingbird-mindwar-mindcrime.html/feed 6 15024 Didactic Mind, Ep 87: The Mind of War https://didacticmind.com/2021/11/didactic-mind-ep-87-the-mind-of-war.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/11/didactic-mind-ep-87-the-mind-of-war.html#respond Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:13:47 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=13664 This week’s podcast is all about strategic thinking and design, and is inspired by the life, work, and thought of Col. John Boyd – “40-second Boyd”, the fighter pilot without a single kill to his name, who single-handedly revolutionised the art of war and changed the way that we think about warfighting. Col. Boyd used […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/11/didactic-mind-ep-87-the-mind-of-war.html/feed 0 13664 Lessons of War, Pt. 2: The Beast in the East https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/lessons-of-war-pt-2-the-beast-in-the-east.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/lessons-of-war-pt-2-the-beast-in-the-east.html#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:24:37 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=13291 In my previous post on this subject, I talked about how and why a war between the USA and China, sparked by the Chinese invasion of Taiwan, would end in disaster for the US and destroy its hegemony. My basic thesis is that the USA will lose because its military routinely fails to understand some […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/lessons-of-war-pt-2-the-beast-in-the-east.html/feed 1 13291 Lessons of War, Pt. 1: Red Storm Rising https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/lessons-of-war-pt-1-red-storm-rising.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/lessons-of-war-pt-1-red-storm-rising.html#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:35:52 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=13331 Given the sabre-rattling going on in the South and especially East China Sea right now, it is worth asking whether the American military and its regional allies can do anything whatsoever to win a war against the world’s largest navy and second largest air force. The answer is likely more complicated than any of us […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/lessons-of-war-pt-1-red-storm-rising.html/feed 9 13331 Guest Post: The Fighting 424 in Gaza by The Male Brain https://didacticmind.com/2021/09/guest-post-the-fighting-424-in-gaza-by-the-male-brain.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/09/guest-post-the-fighting-424-in-gaza-by-the-male-brain.html#respond Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:18:55 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=12825 Our good friend, The Male Brain, sent over a very interesting article in response to my previous post about how the West can conceivably win against guerrilla warfighters. Below is his translation of an excerpt from an article written 6 years ago by Brigadier General Amatzia Chen, IDF (Ret), concerning how the elite special forces […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/09/guest-post-the-fighting-424-in-gaza-by-the-male-brain.html/feed 0 12825 Can guerrilla forces be defeated? https://didacticmind.com/2021/09/can-guerrilla-forces-be-defeated.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/09/can-guerrilla-forces-be-defeated.html#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:42:42 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=12607

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/09/can-guerrilla-forces-be-defeated.html/feed 1 12607 The first passengers for Pinochet Airways https://didacticmind.com/2021/02/the-first-passengers-for-pinochet-airways.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/02/the-first-passengers-for-pinochet-airways.html#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:16:06 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=10829 As we all know by now, His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, the Chaddest of Chads, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, is the first man in history to be impeached, and […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/02/the-first-passengers-for-pinochet-airways.html/feed 3 10829 The dawn of Victory https://didacticmind.com/2020/11/the-dawn-of-victory.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/11/the-dawn-of-victory.html#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2020 04:30:17 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=8584 The attorney for His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, the Chaddest of Chads, may the LORD bless him and preserve him, has been pretty busy over the past few weeks. He’s been putting up […]

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