Author Faust

• Is Insurgency 4th Generation Warfare?

  While insurgencies and 4GW can sometimes mimic each others behavior, they tend to be distinct. 4GW is viable and effective well below the conflict level most would even consider an armed conflict, in part, because it doesn’t waste it’s time waiting for certain thresholds to be met before it engages parts of it’s apparatus in the fight. While the idea has been well applied elsewhere, insurgency tends to treat violence like a light switch: on or off. A 4GW actor uses a dimmer switch. Whether it’s using NGOs or proxies to engage in Lawfare, tying an adversary up in the court, bullying organizations to go after their adversaries, or simple influencing media organizations to change narratives to their liking, a 4GW adversary might be working against you without you even knowing it.

  Posted 595 days ago · Author Faust

• The Perfect Handheld Radio

  There are four features that I consider desirable in a handheld radio, and there’s also a hierarchy of importance to them. Obviously, there are compromises to each, but this is my list of essential features (in order of importance).

  Posted 603 days ago · Author Faust

• The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation

  Lind’s contribution to modern thought about irregular conflicts is both widely accepted, as well as widely disagreed with. It is undoubtable that 4GW as it has come to be known is derivative of previous types of war, but also more complex than the four pages Lind penned over 30 years ago. Life is about experience, and with new experiences we can put past experience into context. Re-reading the old works we may have learned from in our youth may give us new insights into the circumstances we find ourselves in today. For this reason, I present this article.

  William S. Lind, Colonel Keith Nightengale (USA), Captain John F. Schmitt (USMC), Colonel Joseph W. Sutton (USA), and Lieutenant Colonel Gary I. Wilson (USMCR)

  Marine Corps Gazette
  October 1989, Pages 22-26

  Posted 1759 days ago · Author Faust

• Iteration of Life, Thought, and Art

  One does not fall into the swing of regularly writing, editing and then publishing content. Being reactive to another stimulus is easy, and it’s what most of the existing media does. It follows a trend, an event, and then beats that dead horse into a strawberry colored paste.

  Life, like both thought and art are iterative processes, sometimes they arrive at a conclusion, but the most interesting ones don’t.

  Posted 1855 days ago · Author Faust

• What's Your Aesthetic?

  Posted 1877 days ago · Author Faust

• Coming Soon

  Posted 1938 days ago · Author Faust