Professors Mitchell Langbert and Phil Orenstein, and student of war theory Phil Beckman, want to see a vast wave of all manner of non-violent activism to promote the American Founders’ ideals and liberty in order to defeat the postmodernist left (“the idiocies of Chomsky, Moore, et al”) and Islamic fundamentalism. They see this campaign as integral to the current war against terrorism and have been engaged in an interesting debate about how it should be waged and what it should be called: “Fourth-Generation Warfare,” “Fifth-Generation Warfare,” idea war, meme war, media war, or unrestricted war (all related to the concept that current-day war cannot be won by military means alone but must be wed to powerful tactics for winning the minds and hearts of people). Beckman notes John Adams’ statement that the American Revolution had occurred in the minds of the people before the war was fought and that something of this kind is desperately needed now. Whatever its name, this war – military and ideational – must be fought and won.
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