Most recent one hour lecture by Dr. David Kicullen talking about counterinsurgency and how to defeat ISIL / Daesh / ISIS / Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and elsewhere. David John Kilcullen FRGS (born 1967) is an Australian author, strategist and counterinsurgency expert and is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm that he founded.[2] From 2005 to 2006, he was Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department.[3]Kilcullen was a senior counter-insurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in 2007 and 2008, where he helped design and monitor the Iraq War troop surge.[4] He was then a special advisor for counter-insurgency to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.[5] Kilcullen has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for a New American Security[6] and an Adjunct Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.[7] He has written three books: The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, and Out of the Mountains.[8]
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