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 William Lind: Archives
November 24, 2009: Gang Milestone November 17, 2009: What Is "Political Correctness?" November 12, 2009: 4GW Comes to Fort Hood October 30, 2009: The First Front October 21, 2009: Operation Albion September 30, 2009: Keeping Our Infantry Alive September 22, 2009: Last Exit before Quagmire September 15, 2009: The Taliban's Air Force September 09, 2009: Can He Think Big? August 26, 2009: War of Exhaustion or Maneuver? August 04, 2009: The Silence of the Sheep July 21, 2009: Ideas as Weapons July 08, 2009: One Step Forward, One Step Back June 29, 2009: Going Nowhere Fast June 23, 2009: The Iran Crisis and 4GW June 17, 2009: Calling President Davis June 02, 2009: A Memo to the President May 19, 2009: The Future is Now May 13, 2009: The Balkans Again May 05, 2009: Rehearsal April 29, 2009: Blinders April 16, 2009: 300 March 31, 2009: Another War Lost? March 17, 2009: Responses to Readers March 11, 2009: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects March 04, 2009: A Barometer of Order February 24, 2009: The Price of Bad Tactics February 17, 2009: Two Elections January 13, 2009: Israel Doesn't Get 4GW December 17, 2008: America's Defense Meltdown December 11, 2008: If Wishes Were Horses. . . December 03, 2008: More 4GW Operational Art November 24, 2008: The Russian Imperative November 12, 2008: Obama's First Test November 04, 2008: A Useful Culminating Point? October 28, 2008: The Other Election October 20, 2008: The Afghan Advantage October 03, 2008: One War With Two Fronts September 25, 2008: Van Creveld Writes Another Big Book September 17, 2008: Why Obama Is Wrong September 09, 2008: Defending the Baltics August 22, 2008: A Deeper Global Crisis August 18, 2008: Leave it Alone, George August 11, 2008: Changing Horses in Mid-Stream August 04, 2008: Why McCain is Wrong July 24, 2008: Evidence July 17, 2008: Running the Narrows June 24, 2008: Don't Miss the Train June 12, 2008: Phyrric Victory June 06, 2008: Not Checking Six June 02, 2008: Was Military Reform Ever Possible? April 18, 2008: A Confirming Moment April 01, 2008: Die Panzerwaffe March 25, 2008: Operation Cassandra March 11, 2008: Dollars and Sense March 04, 2008: Linearity February 28, 2008: Fools Rush In February 19, 2008: War or Not War? February 13, 2008: Counter Counter-Insurgency February 07, 2008: Die and Win January 29, 2008: My Master's Voice January 15, 2008: Side Effects January 11, 2008: Kicking the Can Down the Road December 14, 2007: Operationalizing Tactical Successes in Iraq December 05, 2007: Academics Awake! November 13, 2007: Cops Who Think November 01, 2007: A Question for Would-Be Presidents October 25, 2007: Mahan or Corbett? October 16, 2007: Out of the Frying Pan October 10, 2007: Not So Fast, John October 04, 2007: John Boyd's Book September 28, 2007: A Ticking Bomb September 25, 2007: A Seam to Exploit? August 30, 2007: Truth-Tellers Needed August 21, 2007: More Kabuki August 14, 2007: Importing More Fourth Generation War August 14, 2007: Importing More Fourth Generation War August 10, 2007: One Forward, Two Back August 02, 2007: America's Last Good Mideast War July 25, 2007: How to Win in Iraq July 19, 2007: Tordenskjold Sails Again July 12, 2007: Is Paris Burning? July 03, 2007: The Death of the RMA June 25, 2007: Legitimacy, Toujours Legitimacy June 13, 2007: The Perfect (Sine) Wave June 01, 2007: The Folly of Maximalist Objectives May 22, 2007: That Flapping Sound You Hear May 16, 2007: The Not Inevitable Future April 25, 2007: Van Creveld's Lessons April 18, 2007: A Tactics Primer April 11, 2007: Hornblower's Nightmare April 04, 2007: The Blinking Red Light March 29, 2007: Operation Anabasis March 22, 2007: Flickers of Light March 14, 2007: More Conversations, Less Powerpoint March 07, 2007: Washington Dodgers at Bat February 27, 2007: The Non-thinking Enemy February 21, 2007: A Swedish Lesson From Below February 13, 2007: Distributed or Dumb? February 06, 2007: Raise or Cross the Bar? January 29, 2007: The Real Game January 24, 2007: On His Majesty's Birthday January 18, 2007: Variables of War January 05, 2007: Somalia Restored? December 11, 2006: Knocking Opportunity December 06, 2006: Boomerang Effect December 06, 2006: Boomerang Effect November 30, 2006: More Troops? November 13, 2006: Lose a War; Lose an Election October 30, 2006: Strategic Counteroffensive September 07, 2006: Down Mexico Way September 01, 2006: Israel's Regression August 24, 2006: Beginning to Learn August 17, 2006: Beat! July 05, 2006: To Be or Not To Be a State? June 19, 2006: Aaugh! June 13, 2006: Blood Stripes June 08, 2006: The Power of Weakness April 06, 2006: The French Other March 29, 2006: The Army's Truth in Advertising March 17, 2006: Reorganization or Reform? March 03, 2006: Army Wins One February 08, 2006: The Long War November 04, 2005: Exit Strategy October 28, 2005: True Confessions October 21, 2005: Sichelschnitt September 26, 2005: Important Distinctions September 15, 2005: Blunders and Opportunities September 09, 2005: In Defense of His Majesty September 01, 2005: Rumors of Wars August 25, 2005: Some Responses August 18, 2005: Getting Swept August 10, 2005: State Armed Service August 03, 2005: War Symposium July 27, 2005: The Duke of Alba July 14, 2005: Hunting for Cops July 12, 2005: 4th Generation War Manual June 29, 2005: Doing It Right June 24, 2005: The Sun Also Rises June 21, 2005: The Other War June 09, 2005: Striking Back June 02, 2005: Wreck It and Run May 25, 2005: Of Cabbages & Kings May 18, 2005: War With China? May 11, 2005: The Reality Gap May 05, 2005: Paradise of Fools April 28, 2005: Gangs vs. the State April 15, 2005: On Strategy April 07, 2005: Insurgents Losing? April 01, 2005: Lebanon Baloney March 23, 2005: On Killing March 16, 2005: Islamic Invasion March 08, 2005: More Newspeak March 01, 2005: Turkish Delight February 23, 2005: Opportunity Knocks February 15, 2005: Fin de Siecle February 09, 2005: Retaining Legitimacy February 01, 2005: Duce? Not to Us January 25, 2005: FMFM 1-A January 21, 2005: Coming Unglued January 14, 2005: Power Behind 4GW January 05, 2005: Jena December 22, 2004: Little Stalingrad December 17, 2004: Election Ju-ju December 08, 2004: March of Folly December 01, 2004: 4GW at Home November 29, 2004: Last Exit November 17, 2004: Military Tactics November 10, 2004: Germany's Blunder November 06, 2004: An Interesting Read October 29, 2004: Election Day October 21, 2004: Moral Level of War October 06, 2004: Keeping Our SA Up October 01, 2004: The Grand Illusion September 24, 2004: National Guard September 14, 2004: Learning Curve September 10, 2004: Stage Three September 02, 2004: The Neo-barbs August 28, 2004: The Desert Fox August 12, 2004: Other Side August 05, 2004: Corps Corruption? July 28, 2004: Incentive System July 21, 2004: Civil War In Iraq? July 15, 2004: 4GW in the Sudan July 08, 2004: October Surprise? July 02, 2004: Spillover June 25, 2004: The Canon, cont'd June 15, 2004: The Canon June 10, 2004: The 4 Generations June 04, 2004: Two Marine Corps May 25, 2004: Psyops In 4GW May 21, 2004: Power Of Weakness May 12, 2004: The Aftershocks May 05, 2004: Iraq's WMD Factory April 27, 2004: On the Brink April 21, 2004: Getting It Wrong April 14, 2004: "Your Fish, Sir" April 08, 2004: 4G Seminar, Cont'd March 29, 2004: Battle That Wasn't March 22, 2004: Start of Phase III March 17, 2004: Strategic Bombing March 10, 2004: Why Blame Us? March 05, 2004: Reality vs Neo-cons February 27, 2004: Bourgeoisie Charm February 20, 2004: Withering Away February 12, 2004: Thoughts on 4GW February 03, 2004: 5th GW? January 27, 2004: The Discarded Image |
About William Lind
 William Sturgiss Lind, Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation, is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, born July 9, 1947. He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1969 and received a Master's Degree in History from Princeton University in 1971. He worked as a legislative aide for armed services for Senator Robert Taft, Jr., of Ohio from 1973 through 1976 and held a similar position with Senator Gary Hart of Colorado from 1977 through 1986. He joined Free Congress Foundation in 1987.
Mr. Lind is author of the Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Press, 1985); co-author, with Gary Hart, of America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform (Adler & Adler, 1986); and co-author, with William H. Marshner, of Cultural Conservatism: Toward a New National Agenda (Free Congress Foundation, 1987). Mr. Lind co-authored the prescient article, "The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation," which was published in The Marine Corps Gazette in October, 1989 and which first propounded the concept of "Fourth Generation War." 
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