Dav: As the concept of warfare stretches, people are just going to find themselves on a new series of frontso. The modern western world as we like it rests on a military model that underpins our way of life is showing signs of strain. Unless we can recover some kind of balance and figure out how to make that model work again, the world as we know it right now is probably not going to be around much longer.
This month will mark a year since the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021 and the chaotic withdrawal of western forces from Afghanistan. In this archive discussion from 2020, we discuss the nature of past Western interventions and the guerrilla warfare resistance that has followed with David Kilcullen, former soldier, diplomat, and senior counterinsurgency adviser for the US during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He joined Carl Miller, Research Director at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, to discuss his book: The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West.
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