William S. Lind (b. July 9, 1947) is an American expert on military affairs and a pundit on cultural conservatism. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cultural conservatism is Conservatism with respect to Culture.
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Education
Lind graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969 and from Princeton University in 1971, where he received a Master's Degree in history. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey.
Military expertise
He is most widely known as one of the originators of Fourth Generation War (4GW) theory. Fourth generation warfare (4GW is combat characterized by a blurring of the lines between War and Politics, soldier and civilian peace and conflict battlefield This theory states that the state has effectively lost its monopoly on warfare, and seeks to address the new challenges posed by this situation. The monopoly on the legitimate use of violence ( Gewaltmonopol des Staates, also known as monopoly on legitimate violence and monopoly on violence) is the The root of this new phenomenon is the "State's Crisis of Legitimacy," which is also linked to Lind's work at the Center for Cultural Conservatism.
Lind served as a legislative aide for the 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. Robert Taft (generally known as Robert Taft Jr for the sake of convenience - see below) ( February 26, 1917 &ndash December 7, For the football player see Gary Hart (footballer. Gary Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936 He is the author of the Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Press, 1985) and co-author, with Gary Hart, of America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform.
Lind worked closely with US Air Force Colonel John Boyd with whom he developed much of his theoretical work and drew much inspiration from. Colonel John (Richard Boyd ( January 23, 1927 &ndash March 9, 1997) was a United States Air Force fighter The OODA Loop primarily used in 4GW was described by Boyd. The OODA Loop (for Observe, Orient, Decide and Act) is a concept applied to the Combat operations process, often at Strategic
With Bruce Gudmundsson, Lind hosted the program Modern War on the now-defunct satellite television network NET. He has been invited to lecture by the Swedish and Israeli military academies and the United States Naval Academy.
Lind, an opponent of the Iraq War, has written for the Marine Corps Gazette, and Defense and the National Interest. The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing Military campaign Marine Corps Gazette is a professional journal for US Marines founded in 1916 at Marine Corps Base Quantico for members of the United States Marine Corps.
According to writer Robert Coram in his book Boyd, during lectures on maneuver warfare Lind was sometimes criticized for having never served in the military, for having "never dodged a bullet, he had never led men in combat, he had never even worn a uniform". Maneuver warfare, also spelled manoeuvre warfare, is the term used by military theorists for a concept of Warfare that advocates attempting to Coram writes that when challenged by an officer, Lind "cut him off at the knees. " (Coram 383)
Center for Cultural Conservatism
Lind is the Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation. The Free Congress Foundation (more formally the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, and Free Congress or FCF for short is a conservative He advocates a Declaration of Cultural Independence by cultural conservatives in the United States, in the belief that the Federal government has ceased to represent their interests, and begun to coerce them into negative behavior and affect their culture in a negative fashion. Cultural conservatism is Conservatism with respect to Culture. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The federal government of the United States is the central United States Governmental body established by the United States Constitution. The Center believes that American culture and its institutions are headed for a collapse, and that cultural conservatives should separate themselves from the calamity it foresees. It supports setting up independent parallel institutions with a right to secession and a highly decentralized nature that would rely on individual responsibility and discipline to remain intact, but would prevent the takeover of the institutions by those hostile to cultural conservatism's ideals.
Lind has authored and co-authored with Paul Weyrich a number of monographs on behalf of the Free Congress Foundation attempting to persuade American conservatives to support government funding for mass transit programs. Paul M Weyrich (born October 7, 1942, in Racine Wisconsin) is a US conservative political activist and commentator He was a co-host of an NET program on light rail called The New Electric Railway Journal. For specific light rail systems many of which use the words "light rail" as part of their name see List of light-rail transit systems.
As a paleoconservative, Lind has often criticized neoconservatives in his commentaries. Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian Neoconservatism (or Neocon is a Right-wing political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the Social liberalism, Moral relativism While not a libertarian, he has also written for LewRockwell.com. LewRockwellcom (LRC is a widely read 501(c(4 Anarcho-capitalist and Paleolibertarian web magazine operated by Burton Blumert (publisher
Criticism
Southern Poverty Law Center
In an article for the Southern Poverty Law Center writer Bill Berkowitz describes Lind as Paul Weyrich ally "who has done the most to define the enemies who make up the so-called "cultural Marxists. The Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC) is an American Non-profit legal organization internationally known for its tolerance education programs its legal Cultural Marxism is a form of Marxism that adds an analysis of the role of the media art theatre film and other cultural institutions in a society " Ultimately, this enemy has come to embody a whole host of Lind's bête noires — feminists, homosexuals, secular humanists, multiculturalists, sex educators, environmentalists, immigrants, black nationalists, the ACLU and the hated Frankfurt School philosophers. The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist Critical theory, Social research, and Philosophy. "
According to the SPLC, in 1999 Lind wrote "The real damage to race relations in the South came not from slavery, but from Reconstruction, which would not have occurred if the South had won. The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive Slavery in the United States began soon after English colonists first settled Virginia in 1607 and lasted until the passage of the Thirteenth "[1]
Lind has been criticized by writer Thomas E. Ricks in an The Atlantic Monthly magazine article "The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society" where Ricks asserts that Lind's rhetoric differs from what Ricks calls "standard right-wing American rhetoric of the '90s" because Lind suggests that the U. The Atlantic (formerly known as The Atlantic Monthly) is an American Magazine founded in Boston in 1857 S. military may assault Americans. Ricks quotes Lind, "The next real war we fight is likely to be on American soil. "[2]
Sources
- ^ http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=106 Into the Mainstream
- ^ http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/milisoc.htm The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society
External links
- Defense and the National Interest's archive of William Lind's "On War"
- William Lind at Lew Rockwell.com: Archives
- The Origins of Political Correctness by William S. Lind
- Rage Against the Machine by William S. Lind
- Declaration of Cultural Independence
- Military.com mini-bio of William S. Lind
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