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William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an American conservative author, described as being aligned with paleoconservatism. [1] He is the author of many books and one of the first proponents of fourth-generation warfare (4GW) theory and is director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation. [ 2 ]
Strategic Studies Institute writer and United States Army War College professor Antulio J. Echevarria II, in his article Fourth-Generation War and Other Myths, argues what is being called fourth generation warfare are simply insurgencies. He also claims that 4GW was "reinvented" by Lind to create the appearance of having predicted the future.
Fourth-generation warfare as presented by Lind et al. is characterized by a post-modern return to decentralized forms of warfare, blurring of the lines between war and politics, combatants, and civilians due to states' loss of their near-monopoly on combat forces, returning to modes of conflict common in pre-modern times.
Rich Lowry of National Review claims the prefix "is designed to obscure the fact that it is a recent ideological creation of post-Cold War politics". [ 15 ] Samuel T. Francis , Thomas Fleming , and some other paleoconservatives de-emphasized the conservative part of the paleoconservative label, saying that they do not want the status quo preserved.
Paul Weyrich and William Lind were prominent figures of cultural conservatism in the United States; Weyrich had co-founded right-wing groups including the Free Congress Foundation, which he led. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Weyrich equated political correctness with Cultural Marxism in a speech to the Conservative Leadership Conference of the Civitas ...
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William Lind may refer to: William S. Lind (born 1947), American conservative author; William Lind (orienteer) (born 1985), Swedish orienteering competitor