William S. Lind

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William S. Lind is director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation. Lind advocates a Declaration of Cultural Independence by cultural conservatives in the United States, as they believe that the Federal government has ceased to represent their interests, and begun to force or coerce them into behavior and affect their culture in a negative fashion. The Center believe that American culture and its institutions are headed for a collapse, and wish to separate themselves from the calamity they foresee. Setting up independent parallel institutions with a right to secession and highly decentralized nature that would rely more on individual responsibility and discipline to remain intact, but would prevent the takeover of the institutions by those hostile to cultural conservatism's ideals. Closely linked to the Libertarian philosophy, Lind is also a commentator at Lewrockwell.com, Marine Corp Gazette, and Defense and the National Interest.

Lind is more widely known as one of the originators of Fourth Generation War (4GW) theory, also known as the Four Generations of Modern Warfare. The Fourth generation stresses that the State has lost its monopoly on warfare, and 4GW seeks to address the new challenges posed by this situation. The root of this new phenomenaon 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. 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.

Lind worked closely with US Airforce Colonel John Boyd with whom he developed much of his theoretical work and drew much inspiration from. The OODA Loop primarily used in 4GW was described by Boyd.

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