William Sturgiss Lind

William Sturgiss Lind (born July 9, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio ) is an American military theorist and conservative author.

Life

Lind graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969 summa cum laude and received a Masters in History from Princeton University in 1971 . From 1973 to 1976 he was an employee of Senator Robert H. Taft junior , whom he served as a military advisor. He served in a similar capacity from 1977 to 1986, Senator Gary Hart . Together with Gary Hart, he wrote America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform. Lind was a research assistant to the Air Force chieftain and military strategist John Boyd , whose findings, in particular the OODA loop , influenced the theory of the fourth generation of war.

He is co-author of the study The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation (1989), which examined the behavior of non-state warring parties. Lind is regarded as a critic of the strategy and tactics used by the US military in the wars against Afghanistan (since 2001) and Iraq (since 2003).

Outside the United States, he was a lecturer at the Swedish and Israeli Military Academies.

In 2014 he wrote the futuristic war novel Victoria: A Novel Of 4th Generation War under the pseudonym Thomas Hobbes . In this radical Christian cause vigilante the resolution of the United States and build in its place a "retro culture", the Confederate States modeled nation.

Publications

with Nightengale, Schmitt, Sutton, Wilson: The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation. (1989)

Individual evidence

↑ Aaugh! , antiwar.com, June 19, 2006, gives a typical example of Lind's criticism of the actions of the American military in Afghanistan. Lind works out both the moral and the military problems that result from air strikes and the inevitable killing of innocent bystanders in societies with strong clan ties and at the same time oblige the occupying power to take revenge .

↑ Thomas Hobbes: Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War . Castalia House, Sl 2015, ISBN 978-952-7065-45-7 ( amazon.de [accessed on August 11, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Lind, William Sturgiss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American military theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cleveland, Ohio

[1] Aaugh! , antiwar.com, June 19, 2006, gives a typical example of Lind's criticism of the actions of the American military in Afghanistan. Lind works out both the moral and the military problems that result from air strikes and the inevitable killing of innocent bystanders in societies with strong clan ties and at the same time oblige the occupying power to take revenge .

[2] Thomas Hobbes: Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War . Castalia House, Sl 2015, ISBN 978-952-7065-45-7 ( amazon.de [accessed on August 11, 2017]).