Symposium: Debating fourth-generation warfare

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Notes

1. William S. Lind, Col. Keith Nightengale (USA), Capt. John F. Schmitt (USMC), Col. Joseph W. Sutton (USA) and Lt. Col. Gary I. Wilson (USMCR), ‘The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation’, Marine Corps Gazette, Oct. 1989, pp.22–6.

2. A main Internet site is Defense and the National Interest, devoted to the ideas of the late US Air Force Col. John Boyd. This gathers together most of the key articles on 4GW and hosts ongoing discussion. See in particular, Fourth-Generation Warfare, Defense and the National Interest, at: 〈www.d-n-i.net/second_level/fourth_generation_warfare.htm〉.

3. See, for example, Elaine M. Grossman, ‘Is the US Military Ready to Take on a Conventional Terrorist Threat’, Inside The Pentagon, 18 Oct. 2001, p.1; Jason Vest, ‘Fourth-generation Warfare’, The Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 2001.

4. Thomas X. Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21 st Century (St Paul, WI: Zenith Press, 2004).

5. Elaine M. Grossman, ‘New Briefing Applies 4th Generation Warfare Ideas to Iraq Conflict; An “OODA Loop” Writ Large’, Inside the Pentagon, 23 Dec. 2004.

6. Glenn Maffei, ‘RAND Studying Iraq Insurgents as First Network-Centric Foes’, Inside the Army, 2 May 2005.