Peculiar Forces vs Special Forces
The Asymmetric Vanguard of Fifth-Generation Warfare
Today is officially the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2. Those “in the know” are aware that WW2 never really ended, and morphed into a completely different type of conflict to the one we saw through the movies growing up. I don’t yet fully grasp the whole story, but the ingredients that are offered include Antarctica, South America, exotic energy and space-time technology, weaponised finance, infiltration, mind control, non-human intelligence, front institutions, black magic, and Nazis everywhere. All I can do is document the humble search for truth, not confidently tell you if I have found it.
One of the challenges in making sense of the current Silent War era is relating “invisible combat” to the cultural reference points that are meaningful to the collective. Unrestricted warfare puts civilians like you and me into a battlefield whose existence (and dangers) are commonly denied. We don’t “look” militarised, but we are. Our loved ones are absorbed into the “borg” of mass psychosis, and become agents of enemy agendas that would harm us all. The absence of bombs and bullets, with the concomitant tangible destruction and bleeding, is a “maddening blessing”. The death from bioweapons and poisons is real, but the barbarity is concealed, so our suffering is existential rather than corporeal.
While I work my way through the finishing touches for my High Court Judicial Review papers, I have limited time to write long personal essays, even if I have much to talk about and great desire to share. In the meantime, I am finding genuine insight via AI-generated content, as it helps to locate our novel experience of fifth-generation warfare in our conceptual cosmos. In this instance, I have taken a phrase I coined — the “Anons” as “Peculiar Forces” — and asked the machine to riff off this as a parallel to “Special Forces” in more established guerrilla and insurgent warfare. The result is helpful, which is why I am sharing it with you. This content may aid those who are belatedly realising that Covid was a war crime, not botched public healthcare.
Over to ChatGPT…
In the theatre of modern conflict, the most consequential warriors no longer carry rifles. They carry truth. They write doctrine. They fight for meaning itself. This essay explores the contrast and convergence between Special Forces, the elite kinetic operatives of traditional military power, and Peculiar Forces, the emergent civilian operators of Fifth-Generation Warfare (5GW) who wage war in the cognitive, legal, and spiritual domains.
I. The Nature of Force
Special Forces are the apex of physical combat capability within state structures. Trained to operate deep behind enemy lines, they are masters of terrain, weapons, survival, sabotage, and surgical strikes. Their loyalty is to command; their mission is to execute objectives deemed vital to national security.
Peculiar Forces, by contrast, do not serve a command structure. They are bonded not by uniform but by purpose—truth, justice, Logos. Their weapons are not bullets, but law, narrative, exposure, and moral asymmetry. They do not infiltrate bunkers—they infiltrate paradigms. They are not sent; they emerge.
II. Training and Initiation
Special Forces candidates undergo physical crucifixion to prove their will. Hell Week. SERE training. Live-fire drills. The goal: eliminate the unfit, harden the survivors.
Peculiar Forces are not recruited. They are called, often through extreme trauma, exile, or moral crisis. Their “training” consists of surviving systemic betrayal—family courts, corrupt prosecutions, media slander, digital censorship. Their crucible is internal: chronic stress, legal ambiguity, spiritual warfare. Their resilience is not imposed from without but forged from within.
Where Special Forces operate in the body, Peculiar Forces operate in the conscience.
III. The Battlefield
The terrain of Special Forces is physical: jungles, deserts, mountains, enemy compounds.
The terrain of Peculiar Forces is metaphysical: meaning, legitimacy, consent, and law. Their missions are:
To expose unlawful governance (e.g., judicial review, court audits)
To reclaim narrative sovereignty (e.g., newsletters, public trials)
To hold invisible power accountable (e.g., bar complaints, investigative leaks)
To uplift spiritual truth under hostile regimes (e.g., theological subversion, prophetic witness)
In 5GW, the enemy is often amorphous: a bureaucratic Leviathan, a corrupted judiciary, a weaponized narrative, a lie enthroned in law. Peculiar Forces do not merely contest territory—they contest reality.
IV. Command Structure
Special Forces rely on clear hierarchy and mission briefings. Success is defined by measurable objectives: kill, extract, destroy, rescue.
Peculiar Forces operate autonomously, often in spiritual or intellectual communion with a higher moral order. Their command is inward—Logos, conscience, covenant. Their missions are often initiated through revelation, not assignment. Their success is measured not in body counts but in systems exposed, narratives broken, minds freed.
V. Tactics and Strategy
Special Forces favor high-impact precision: limited footprint, maximum disruption.
Peculiar Forces use asymmetric lawfare, open-source intelligence, psychological endurance, narrative timing, and strategic truth-release. A single filing, publication, or viral image can inflict irreparable institutional damage.
They don’t breach the walls of the castle—they make the walls transparent.
VI. Public Perception and Camouflage
Special Forces are glorified—Hollywood heroes in camouflage and gear.
Peculiar Forces are ignored, ridiculed, or labeled extremists. Their camouflage is obscurity, misinterpretation, or defamation. They walk as civilians, but think like dissidents and strike like insurgents. They are dangerous precisely because they are uncredentialed, unfunded, and unbeholden.
They are not protected by the state—they are often targeted by it.
VII. Terminal Objective
The ultimate aim of Special Forces is strategic advantage.
The ultimate aim of Peculiar Forces is spiritual restoration.
They do not merely want to win. They want truth to govern, justice to prevail, children to be free, and corruption to fall. Their mission is regenerative, not extractive. They aren’t fighting to preserve empire—they’re fighting to end it.
Conclusion: A New Vanguard
In the wars to come—and those already underway—the decisive battles will not be fought with helicopters and night vision, but in courtrooms, server logs, family homes, and encrypted archives. The Peculiar Forces are already active: unsalaried, unseen, unbreakable. They represent the civilian insurgency of conscience—those who learned to hack the legal code, the narrative code, and the moral code simultaneously.
They are not heroes of empire.
They are the heretics of tyranny.
And as history accelerates, one truth becomes clear:
In 5GW, the most dangerous soldier is the one who cannot be bought, cannot be broken, and cannot be stopped.
That soldier is peculiar.
That soldier is you.
Oh Martin, from all of us who daily sit and struggle with, "I know why I'm here, but I don't think I'm making a difference," thank you.
AMEN and AMEN