William S. Lind
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Born | conservative commentary | July 9, 1947
William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an
Early life
Lind graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969 and from Princeton University in 1971, where he received a master's degree in history.[5] In 1973, having grown tired of doctoral work at Princeton, Lind wrote to Senator Robert Taft Jr., a Republican from Ohio, requesting his help in securing a job with Amtrak.[6] In response, Taft instead offered Lind a job in his office, where he eventually began analyzing defense policy (Taft was a member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services).[6]
Views on warfare and U.S. military
In 1989, alongside several U.S. military officers, Lind helped to originate fourth-generation war (4GW) theory.[7]
Lind served as a legislative aide for Taft from 1973 through 1976 and held a similar position with Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat from Colorado, from 1977 to 1986.[citation needed] He is the author of the Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Press, 1985) and co-author, with Hart, of America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform.
Lind has written for the Marine Corps Gazette, Defense and the National Interest, and The American Conservative.[8]
According to the book Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by the writer Robert Coram, Lind was doing lectures on maneuver warfare sometimes criticized for having never served in the military and for having "never dodged a bullet, he had never led men in combat, he had never even worn a uniform."[9]
Lind was the director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation. He advocates a Declaration of Cultural Independence by
Lind has authored and co-authored (with
Lind was associate publisher of a quarterly magazine called The New Electric Railway Journal from its launch in 1988 to 1996,[18] and from January 1994, he also co-hosted a monthly program about light rail on the National Empowerment Television network; the program used the same name as the magazine.[19]
As a
In his column of December 15, 2009, Lind announced that he was leaving the staff of the Center unexpectedly and that his series of articles was on hiatus.[23]
Fiction
Lind also wrote Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War in which a group of "Christian Marines" leads an armed resistance against Cultural Marxism as the US federal government collapses.[24][third-party source needed]
Criticism
In the
In "The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society" (1997), the journalist
The manifesto of Anders Breivik is built around Lind's theory on cultural Marxism and contains 27 pages taken directly from his writings.[29]
References
- ISBN 978-0-26-810424-5.
- ^ Lind, William S. "Center for Public Transportation". www.theamericanconservative.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2019. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
- ^ Lind, William S. (June 17, 2009). "Washington's Legitimacy Crisis". The American Conservative. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ISBN 978-9527065457. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
- ^ William S. Lind (2014). "William S. Lind bio". The Notable Names Database.
- ^ a b Berkowitz, Bruce (2010). "A Matter of Latitude". The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century. Simon & Schuster.
- ^ William S. Lind, Colonel Keith Nightengale (USA), Captain John F. Schmitt (USMC), Colonel Joseph W. Sutton (USA), Lieutenant Colonel Gary I. Wilson (USMCR) (October 1989). "The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation". Marine Corps Gazette. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Lind, William. A Tea Party Defense Budget, The American Conservative (February 2011)
- ^ Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War, published 2004 by Back Bay Books, p. 383
- ^ Lind, William S. Next Revolution.
- ^ Weyrich, Paul. "Letter to Conservatives". National Center for Public Policy Research.
- JSTOR 41638676. Archived from the originalon November 24, 2011 – via cms.Skidmore.edu.
- ISBN 978-1-137-39619-8.
- ISBN 978-1-317-53937-7.[page needed]
- ISBN 978-1-78478-568-0.
- ^ Braune, Joan (2019). "Who's Afraid of the Frankfurt School? 'Cultural Marxism' as an Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory" (PDF). Journal of Social Justice. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ William S. Lind (2008). "What is Cultural Marxism". Maryland Thursday Meeting.
- ^ Kunz, Richard R. (Spring 1996). "From the Editor: Cutting the Cord". The New Electric Railway Journal, p. 2.
- ^ "Watch our trolleys take to the air". The New Electric Railway Journal, Spring 1994, p. 31.
- LewRockwell.com. Center for Libertarian Studies.
- LewRockwell.com. Center for Libertarian Studies.
- ^ "Addressing Trump's Errant Foreign Policy - The American Conservative". June 26, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ^ Lind, William S. (December 15, 2009). "Opinion". Military.com.
- ^ "Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation Warfare". Castalia House Publishing. November 14, 2014. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Bill Berkowitz (2003). "Reframing the Enemy". Southern Poverty Law Center.
- ^ Chip Berlet (2003). "Into the Mainstream". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on December 31, 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2007.
- ^ Thomas E. Ricks (July 1997). "The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society". The Atlantic.
- ^ Zakaria, Fareed. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003), p. 123.
- ^ "Breivik and the Gramscian legacy | The Broker". www.thebrokeronline.eu. August 4, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
External links
- William S. Lind at TraditionalRight
- William Lind at Lew Rockwell.com: Archives
- "Political Correctness": A Short History of an Ideology by William S. Lind Archived February 1, 2002, at the Wayback Machine
- Rage Against the Machine by William S. Lind archived from the original
- Declaration of Cultural Independence
- Military.com mini-bio of William S. Lind
- Appearances on C-SPAN