{"title":"David Kilcullen","description":"David Kilcullen was formerly counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq and to the NATO Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and currently serves as a consultant to the U.S. government. Kilcullen is also Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.","products":[{"product_id":"the-accidental-guerrilla-fighting-small-wars-in-the-midst-of-a-big-one-paperback","title":"The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas \"are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west\" (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement \"the Surge,\" now recognized as a dramatic success. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe Accidental Guerrilla\u003c\/em\u003e, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. Kilcullen takes us \"on the ground\" to uncover the face of modern warfare, illuminating both the big global war (the \"War on Terrorism\") and its relation to the associated \"small wars\" across the globe: Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Pakistani tribal zones, East Timor and the horn of Africa. Kilcullen sees today's conflicts as a complex interweaving of contrasting trends--local insurgencies seeking autonomy caught up in a broader pan-Islamic campaign--small wars in the midst of a big one. He warns that America's actions in the war on terrorism have tended to conflate these trends, blurring the distinction between local and global struggles and thus enormously complicating our challenges. Indeed, the US had done a poor job of applying different tactics to these very different situations, continually misidentifying insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances--whom he calls \"accidental guerrillas\"--as part of a coordinated worldwide terror network. We must learn how to disentangle these strands, develop strategies that deal with global threats, avoid local conflicts where possible, and win them where necessary.\u003cbr\u003e Colored with gripping battlefield experiences that range from the jungles and highlands of Southeast Asia to the mountains of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the dusty towns of the Middle East, \u003cem\u003eThe Accidental Guerrilla\u003c\/em\u003e will, quite simply, change the way we think about war. This book is a must read for everyone concerned about the war on terror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365703221471,"sku":"9780199754090","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UycrCrATO39780199754090.webp?v=1789070139"},{"product_id":"out-of-the-mountains-the-coming-age-of-the-urban-guerrilla-paperback","title":"Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan. But the face of global conflict is ever-changing. In \u003cem\u003eOut of the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on current and future conflict, offers a groundbreaking look at what may happen after today's wars end. This is a book about future conflicts and future cities, and about the challenges and opportunities that four powerful megatrends--population, urbanization, coastal settlement, and connectedness--are creating across the planet. And it is about what cities, communities and businesses can do to prepare for a future in which all aspects of human society--including, but not limited to, conflict, crime and violence--are changing at an unprecedented pace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKilcullen argues that conflict is increasingly likely to occur in sprawling coastal cities, in peri-urban slum settlements that are enveloping many regions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia, and in highly connected, electronically networked settings. He suggests that cities, rather than countries, are the critical unit of analysis for future conflict and that resiliency, not stability, will be the key objective. Ranging across the globe--from Kingston to Mogadishu to Lagos to Benghazi to Mumbai--he offers a unified theory of \"competitive control\" that explains how non-state armed groups such as drug cartels, street gangs, and warlords draw their strength from local populations, providing useful ideas for dealing with these groups and with diffuse social conflicts in general. His extensive fieldwork on the ground in a series of urban conflicts suggests that there will be no military solution for many of the struggles we will face in the future. We will need to involve local people deeply to address problems that neither outsiders nor locals alone can solve, drawing on the insight only locals can bring, together with outsider knowledge from fields like urban planning, systems engineering, renewable energy, conflict resolution and mediation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis deeply researched and compellingly argued book provides an invaluable roadmap to a future that will increasingly be crowded, urban, coastal, connected--and dangerous.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365711937759,"sku":"9780190230968","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Vz5-PM7fbK9780190230968.webp?v=1789070189"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-kilcullen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}