Results for "David Kilcullen"

Miliband and Kilcullen

As regular readers will know, Global Dashboard is a hotbed of David Kilcullen fandom - so bravo to David Miliband for noting on his blog that Kilcullen's...

Kilcullen close to despair

In an email exchange with George Packer, David Kilcullen sounds a pessimistic note about prospects in Afghanistan. The situation is 'dire' but there's a...

Pakistan’s beleaguered police

As Charlie noted here last week, counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen was pretty damning on US drone attacks during his recent visit to London.  But...

The accidental guerrilla

David Kilcullen on the central concept of his eponymous book: Interviewer: When did the concept of the "accidental guerrilla syndrome" really start to click?...

Generation Kill goes to Gaza

Chances are you'll already have seen media coverage of Generation Kill - HBO's outstanding new mini-series based on Evan Wright's book on his time as an...

Return of the Proxy War?

In 2006 the U.S national security establishment “re-discovered” counter-insurgency, as General David Petraeus fresh from having published the Army/Marine COIN...

re: The bad boys of Blackwater

David Kilcullen on how to run a successful counter-insurgency: In counterinsurgency, the initiative is everything. If the enemy is reacting to you, you...

Our man in Kabul

It's like buses: you wait months for David Miliband to resume his blog, and then no less than six officially sanctioned FCO bloggers come along at once -...

Naming Bin Laden

In the past few days, a vicious spat has broken out in the US counter-insurgency community. On one side, the architect of a new lexicon, inspired by Koranic...

4GW arrives at Number 10

Included in Matthew d'Ancona's highly readable report back from Gordon Brown's trip to the US - the excellent news that GB has become a devotee of leading 4GW...

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Let’s make climate a culture war!

Let’s make climate a culture war!

If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad?  No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...