http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/ en http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-quest-for-legitimacy <span>The Quest for Legitimacy</span> <span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span> <span>Tue, 02/21/2012 - 9:27am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> Fourth Generation Warfare advocates propose a tactical shift in how operations are conducted to defeat an insurgency. This paper explains why, from a legitimacy standpoint, 4GW will lead to a strategic failure.</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/the-quest-for-legitimacy" rel="tag" title="The Quest for Legitimacy" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Quest for Legitimacy</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/the-quest-for-legitimacy#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">19 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1294/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1330230218" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:27:23 +0000 Peter J. Munson 12309 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com