US News and World Report – More on the US Army and US Marines new manual on counterinsurgency.
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Category Archives: FourthGenerationWarfare
Fourth Generation Warfare – What US wants in its troops: cultural savvy
Christian Science Monitor – Another example of how the US military is trying to adapt for Fourth Generation Warfare.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Counterinsurgency by the Book
Slate – Two messages flutter between the lines of the U.S. Army’s new field manual on counterinsurgency wars, its first document on the subject in 20 years.
One is that Pentagon planning for the Iraq war’s aftermath was at least as crass, inattentive to the lessons of history, and contrary to basic political and military principles as the war’s harshest critics have charged. The other is that as a nation we may simply be ill-suited to fight these kinds of wars.
The manual is found here: Counterinsurgency FM3-24FD.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Further Reflections on Unrestricted Warfare
Defense and the National Interest – Itís been seven years since two Chinese soldiers, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, released their treatise, Unrestricted Warfare. But their 228-page book should be read again by policymakers and warfighters because their points are directly relevant to the dangers facing the U.S. and its gargantuan military-industrial-Congressional complex.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Critics of the Fourth Generation: The Ugly
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind address critiques of Fourth Generation Warfare – Part 3.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Critics of the Fourth Generation: The Bad
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind addresses the critiques of Fourth Generation Warfare – Part 2.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Critics of the Fourth Generation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind responds to the critics of Fourth Generation Warfare – Part 1.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Operational IEDs
Defense and the National Interest – A look at the role that Improvised Explosive Devices are playing in the defining the operational aspect of Fourth Generation Warfare.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – It Ain't Fair
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind reviews the use of suicide bombing in Fourth Generation Warfare.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Sichelschnitt
Defense and the National Interest – An interesting look, by William Lind, of what happens when two armies representing different generations of warfare fight each other???
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Interview with Martin van Creveld
Defense and the National Interest – An interview with military historian Martin van Creveld.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Some Responses
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind shares some of the feedback he has gotten regarding his idea of a national militia being the best response to the Fourth Generation Threat.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Modern Warfare Symposium, continued
Defense and the National Interest – A continuation of the discussion of what a state armed service designed for Fourth Generation war might look like – a militia.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – The Duke of Alba
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on the interesting similarities between Spain’s dealings with the Netherlands in the 16th century, and the United States’ dealings with Iraq today.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Modern Warfare Symposium
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on Part 1 of what a state armed service designed for Fourth Generation War may look like.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM 1-A, Fourth Generation War, Is Now Available
Fourth Generation Warfare – Doing it Right
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind shows how the US is waging Fourth Generation Warfare successfully.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM-1A Fourth Generation War
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind posts the first draft of his Field Manual of Fourth Generation Warfare (Microsoft Word format).
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Fourth Generation Warfare – The Reality Gap
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on the disconnect between the Pentagon and reality today.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – On Strategy
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on how the Marines should design a strategy for Iraq.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – On Killing
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on the (un)importance of killing in Fourth Generation Warfare.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Battle of Algiers
New York Times – I just saw the movie The Battle of Algiers and I recommend it to anyone who wants to experience a first-person view of what Fourth Generation Warfare can be like. The similarities between this battle, which occured 50 years ago, and the situation in Iraq today, are striking. The article linked to here reports on how the Pentagon has been using this film.
Roger Ebert gives some insight into how the film was made: Roger Ebert – The Battle of Algiers
Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM 1-A
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind gives a progress report on the Field Manual he is writing on Fourth Generation Warfare.
Fourth Generation Warfare – The Sorrows Of Old Werther
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on what powers Fourth Generation Warfare – Belief – which is something the West lacks.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Jena
Defense and the National Interest – ???That’s the problem when you invade someone; you end up having to fight on their turf???
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