There is a significant difference between the russian and the chinese approach. You see the chinese defining our way of war. And their main thinking and experimentation has been around actually how to bo the techniques and philosophies of the snakes. They've avoided goingi sort of, right up tothe extremely kinetic level of warfare. So things like strategic real estate acquisition, manipulating drug smuggling, acquiring technological capabilities that allow them to define global technological systems.
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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