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‘this book should be required reading for anyone involved in the war on terror. Kilcullen’s central concept of the “accidental guerrilla” is brilliant and the policy prescriptions that flow from it important. And that’s not all; the book has many more insights drawn from various battlefields. —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
'For a wider perspective on the lessons drawn over the past seven years
of the 'war on terror', the reader can do no better than turn to Mr
Kilcullen's excellent book. The Accidental Guerrilla
has an anthropologist's sense of social dynamics and a reporter's eye
for telling detail. If T.E. Lawrence evoked the means of waging
irregular warfare in his 1926 classic, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Mr
Kilcullen describes the practitioner's art of combating insurgents.' — The Economist
The Australian David Kilcullen is the world’s foremost expert on this way of war, and in The Accidental Guerrilla, the Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to the Pentagon and architect of ‘the Surge’, surveys war as it is actually fought in the contemporary world.
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376 pp April 2009
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Drawing on examples from Mexico, Africa, France, the USA, India and Iran, this book presents an analysis of the cultural history of the West's democratic norms and practices and their imposition on other societies.
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256 pp June 2007
| Hardback | | 9781850657699 | | £25.00 | | Buy Now | | Paperback | | 9781850658672 | | £16.50 | | Buy Now |
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