Terrorist groups have become much more cell based, amorphous individual adhoc self generating individuals carrying out terrarist attacks. This radical decentralization is enabled by things like sel phones and social media but it's also an effect of the way we crushed these terrorist groups after nine 11. We've also seen the emergence of guerilla terrorism, where people are reaching in with social media and growing guerilla terrorist teams close to the target. And then the final thing i think that's worth pointing out is this idea of leaderless resistance, which is an idea that actually comes out of the right races world in the united states in the 19 eighties.
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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