We can't just completely get out of the game of conventional warfare, or we're just leaving that space two potential adversaries. We have to be ready for conventional warfare as we define it, but also ready to recognize that we're in eliminal conflict and be able to deal with it. The byzantinimpa survived against an enormous range of enemies for more than a millennium. They developed certain technologies that it was hard for their adversaries to match. And most importantly they focused on domestic resilience and social cohesion under a single governance system.
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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