In the last series of general elections that we've had, i can't really remember any debate about military or foreign policy. I mean, war is fundamentally political. That's the difference between war and just rand and violence. And only was clum soi, the french prime minister in werbaon, who said, war is too important to be left to the generals. Everyone has role in being part of a national conversation about what do we want the military to do,. how does it translate into better outcomes for us?
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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