Have we all been a kind of asleep at the wheel throout all of this? i think if you havea rment where your adversary has a much broader definition of warfare than you do, then two really dangerous things can happen. On the one hand, your adversary can be engaging in warfare, but you don't realize it because your definition of warfare is so much more narrow. And so until before you know it, or before you realize that, you're already in a major conflict and it's too late to adapt. That's one problem. I think even worse is if you have a much narrowerdefinition of warfare than your adversary,. You can be doing things that you think a perfectly
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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