The idea of national resilience is an area that does confront a lot of people, perhaps not here in the uk. If you live in any of the baltic states or in scandinavia, you'll be seeing publications coming out from your own government talking about if war comes and how to organize resistance. I'd recommend a wonderful norwegian soap opera called occupied, which is about the russians invading norway and what happens. They do it in sub threshold way. And i'm sure there are people slapping each other on the back right now in some dutche outside moscow saying, haw, this thing's been going for four years. You know, were amazing
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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