4th Generation Warfare in America

Gangs around America are adopting 4th Generation Warfare tactics in America's cities. Gangs are now becoming both more violent and more sophisticated in how they control communities and combat rival gangs and law enforcement.  Underlying this pattern, is the evolution of a new type of criminal in which The San Francisco Chronicle found:

Increasingly, the young murder suspects coming to the station for questioning seem to lack basic morality, said Sgt. Tim Nolan, who has been investigating Oakland homicides for 17 years.

"There are more and more families where there's less and less structure," he said. "Talking to these suspects day in and out, there's a higher percentage today with no sense of right and wrong. It's frightening, but we are creating super-criminals."

In Chicago, 32 people shot, 6 wounded in one weekend, is an example of this growing problem. Many of these young men are also gaining training and combat experience while serving in Iraq. Gangs are becoming more militaristic, better organized, better trained, and more brutal.

The incidents in Chicago is similar to the 4th Generation Warfare tactic of Dispersed Swarming, in which small groups converge on multiple targets simultaneously, overwhelming the ability of local authorities to counterattack.

The coupling of military training on males raised with no  moral compass or empathy toward other people means gang violence and gang strength will increase and will seriously challenge local police forces. Gangs now have access to similar weaponry, similar training, and combat experience. This is another point that demonstrates the disintegration of American into a third world nation.