The book is about adaptation and how adversaries have evolved under conditions that we created at the end of the coal war. David elec he, hi, very good. Say you described on alcada a messaging board as a patras australian mercenary. Yes, that gave us quite a good laugh at the time. But when i started reading the the detailed after action review that these guys had put up, it was actually pretty interesting. They were spending tof tryim time trying to figure out why exactly it was that they were getting their arses kicked during the surge,. And figuring out how to respond.
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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