Generation War
Strategic Studies Institute writer and United States Army War College professor Antulio J. Echevarria II, in his article "Fourth-Generation War and Other Myths", argues what is being called "fourth generation warfare" are simply insurgencies. He also claims that 4GW was "reinvented" by Lind to create the appearance of having predicted the future. Echevarria writes: "The generational model is an ineffective way to depict changes in warfare. Simple displacement rarely takes place, significant developments typically occur in parallel." The critique was rebutted by John Sayen, a military historian and retired Lt. Col. in the Marine Corps Reserve.