[A Simple Soldier]

T.E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, had this to say,

"[A] 2% active insurgency is successful because 98% of the population is sympathetic to the point of not betraying rebel movements."

I know Bill Lind personally. He has some weird theories and beliefs in areas outside of military theory, but in general, his military stuff, especially when talking about 4th Generation warfare, is generally very good. Having said that he has had some spectacular misses also, like when he predicted the possibility of the 3rd ID being cut off, surrounded and forced to surrender on the drive to Baghdad.

Bottom line, he and Keegan are always worth listening to.

[mikegi]

I know Bill Lind personally.

I offer my condolences.

He has some weird theories and beliefs in areas outside of military theory, but in general, his military stuff, especially when talking about 4th Generation warfare, is generally very good.

Lind's a regular columnist on counterpunch.org along with such luminaries as Alexander Cockburn and Robert Fisk. They're the worst bunch of pu**y-whipped humans on the planet (they certainly aren't "men" and I'd have to see a certified karotyping containing both X and Y chromosomes before I'd call them "male").

[Dead Dog]

The same William Lind that wrote the USMC Manuever Warfare Handbook? As in Boyd's William Lind?