Topic: William S. Lind

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Applying operational art in Fourth Generation war is so difficult, it is hard to point to many successful examples of it. The recent assaults in Mumbai are among the few and also among the best, bordering on brilliant. We may regret brilliance on the part of our opponents, but that should not prevent us from acknowledging it.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's first test in the national security arena is likely to come not from al-Qaida or Iran or the Taliban in Afghanistan but from within his own Democratic Party.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's first test in the national security arena after taking the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States is likely to come not from al-Qaida or Iran or the Taliban in Afghanistan but from within his own Democratic Party.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- I have suggested in previous columns that the al-Qaida model of Fourth Generation war may be failing for inherent reasons -- that is to say, for reasons it cannot fix.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- As the military situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, there may be at least the possibility of better news on the political front.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The global financial crisis is close to knocking out its most important and potentially most dangerous victim yet: Pakistan needs a financial support package of $10 billion to $15 billion to avoid collapse.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- One way to look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is to see them as one war with two fronts.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Germany's politicians have demanded the modern German army, the Bundeswehr, be stripped of all German military traditions, not just those of the Nazi period, but this will only guarantee the army's failure in any time of battle and crisis.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- All of Martin van Creveld's books are worth reading, but a few are "big books," books so important that anyone interested in war must read them.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A few weeks ago I wrote a column explaining why John McCain is wrong on Iraq. In contrast, Barack Obama is largely right on Iraq. Whether he would follow through on his plan for withdrawing U.S. troops is another question. The Democratic Party's foreign policy establishment is no less Wilsonian than its Republican counterpart, and once it has used anti-war voters to gain power, it will want to show them the door as soon as it dares.