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William S. Lind is Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. Lind served as assistant for military affairs to U.S. Senator Gary Hart. Lind writes and lectures internationally on military theory and doctrine.

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Counterinsurgency Ops at Home

One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ferrari,  Washington Post Company

The Roots of Political Correctness

In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Herbert Marcuse,  Antonio Gramsci,  U.S. Congress

4GW Comes to Ft. Hood

Last week’s shootings at Ft. Hood, in which thirteen U. S. Soldiers were killed and 30 people wounded, appear to be a classic example of Fourth Generation war. The shooter, U. S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was a practicing Moslem. He sometimes wore ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, Dallas Blog,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  Washington Post Company

War the Swedish Way

My recent trip to the Baltic included a week with the Royal Swedish Navy and the Swedish Marines, the First Amphibious Regiment. The hospitality of both surpassed anything I could have expected, including a chance to conn one of the superb Class 90 ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NATO,  Kaiser Wilhelm

Familia Values

An article in the October 23 Washington Times points to what I think may be the next important evolution in Fourth Generation war. The piece concerns Mexico’s third-largest drug gang, La Familia. La Familia is best known for beheading people it does ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Eric Holder

Operation Albion

Last week I had the pleasure of helping lead a staff ride of Operation Albion for the Baltic Defence College.  Especially for people with an interest in amphibious operations, Albion is one of the best case studies history offers. In Operation Albion, ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: US Marine Corps,  John Boyd

Keeping Our Infantry Alive

The headline of the September 23 Washington Post read, “Less Peril for Civilians, but More for Troops.” The theme of the article was that restrictions General Stanley McChrystal has imposed on the use of supporting arms in Afghanistan, with the ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  30 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  US Marine Corps,  NATO,  John Poole

Last Exit Before Quagmire

The Washington Post yesterday made available an unclassified version of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s long-awaited report on the war in Afghanistan. Politically, the report is bold, in that it acknowledges the enemy has the initiative and we have been ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  U.S. Congress,  The Pentagon,  White House,  Mullah Omar

The Taliban’s Air Force

The Taliban’s air force recently delivered another devastating strike, hitting two fuel tanker trucks that had been captured by local Taliban-affiliated forces in northern Afghanistan. As usual, many civilians were killed, inflaming the local ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: NATO,  Mullah Omar

Putting “Defense” Back in “Defense Department”

An article in the August 28 New York Times described a recent epiphany on the part of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen. It seems that Admiral Mullen now “gets” a point Fourth Generation war theorists have made for years, ...

From WILLIAM S. LIND, The American Conservative,  9 Sep 2009

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