GP-2026-016 | April 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19161286 ABSTRACT Existing frameworks for terrorism detection, crime prevention, and hybrid warfare assessment share a structural miscalibration that the fifth wave deliberately exploits. Complexity — the defining characteristic of fifth-wave extremism — is not ideological confusion but a deliberately engineered strategy of analytical evasion whose logic has remained unexplained because it requires all three of its