5th Generation Warfare, or Slaughter by Sanctions

A Banker's War for the 21st Century

In October 1989 the Marine Corps Gazette published an article entitled “The Changing Face of Warfare: Into the Fourth Generation.” The lead author of that article, William S. Lind, has since written at much greater length about the decentralized insurgencies and culture wars that make up what we've come to call Fourth Generation Warfare or 4GW.

4GW notor…