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David Kilcullen, former counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, looked at the ways hostile forces have adapted to the ways the U.S. fights wars.

David Kilcullen talked about his book, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla, in which he argues that wars over the next decades will largely be fought in sprawling coa…

Foreign affairs experts testified about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan following the killing of Osama bin Laden.

David Kilcullen presents his latest insights on counterinsurgency, a warfare tactic he’s studied for 25 years. Considered one of the world’s experts on the topic, he is credited with influen…

David Kilcullen talked about his book The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (Oxford University Press, USA; March 16, 2009). He defines accidental guerrillas…

At the 2007 New Yorker Festival the “Iraq Revisited Panel” talked about the situation in Iraq. Topics included the cycles of change in the country and the current military, political, govern…