David Kilcullen is an Australian author, strategist, and policymaker known for his expertise in counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare. He has served as a senior advisor to U.S. military and government leaders, particularly in the context of the Iraq War and the War on Terror. Kilcullen is recognized for his advocacy of a comprehensive approach to counterinsurgency that emphasizes the importance of understanding the local culture and social dynamics, as well as the need for military and non-military strategies to work in tandem.
He has written extensively on military strategy, including notable works such as "The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One" and "Counterinsurgency". Kilcullen has also been involved in various think tanks and has contributed to the discourse on global security issues.
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In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how this has come to pass, and what oppo...
The first work to put forward a unified theory of how state and non-state threats now overlap and intersect. In 1993, a...