4GW Manuals

Produced by the Fourth Generation Warfare Seminar at the Marine Corps Base, Quantico:

1. FMFM 1A, Fourth Generation Warfare, August 2009 (720 KB PDF)

2. FMFM 1-3A, A Tactical Handbook for Counterinsurgency and Police Operations, Draft 1.0, 12 August 2008 (158 KB PDF)

3. FMFM 1A-3A, A Book of 4GW Tactical Decision Games, 3 October 2008 (95 pp, 2.5 MB PDF)

4. Light Infantry, 24 September 2008 (495 KB PDF)

5.  FMFM 3-23 Air Cooperation, August 2009 (1.2 MB PDF)

6.  FMFM 3-25 How to Fight in a 4th Generation Insurgency, August 2009 (725 KB PDF)

The original paper, “The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation,” from the 1989 Marine Corps Gazette.

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