ABSTRACT
Fourth Generation Warfare is characterized by a lack of definable battlefields, by groups acting not necessarily under the direct control of a foreign government, and by its transnational nature. In this Fourth Generation, we can no longer afford to indulge radicals in the academy who, as historian Donald Kagan warns, are "subversive of our safety". Perpetrators of Fourth Generation Warfare are typically the self-styled oppressed or those who claim to be fighting on behalf of the oppressed. The ubiquity and elusiveness of Fourth Generation Warfare require profound changes throughout society, and above all throughout the nation's college and university campuses. Entrusted as we in the academy are with passing on the American and Western democratic heritage, it is no small part of our mission to extend its blessings. The extremists currently waging war against us justify their actions in the name of religion but also in the name of ideological multiculturalism.
