No, this not more commentary on Joel's barely veiled accusation that his own Defence Department plotted his undoing. At " Read More" below is my review of a recent book by David Kilcullen on counter-insurgency warfare: The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the midst of a Big One . I recommend it highly to students of geo-politics and strategy. It's challenging, but does repay the effort. The Accidental Guerrilla : Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One By David Kilcullen Lt Col David Kilcullen, apparently rose to fame in the US whilst serving in the Australian Army, when his article “Twenty-Eight Articles: fundamentals of company-level counterinsurgency”, was published in the Military Review and read by General David Petraeus. Petraeus was so impressed he sent it by email to his officers in the US Army. Kilcullen was subsequently recruited by the General to serve with him in Iraq, helping implement the successful “Surge” strategy based around some of...
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