David Kilcullen
Auteur de The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
A propos de l'auteur
David Kilcullen was born in 1967 in Australia. His education includes St Pius X College and the Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Military Art and Science and later a PhD in politics. He had his army officers training at afficher plus the Royal Military College, Duntroon . His military career includes attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Australian Army, served as a Staff Officer in the Australian Defence Force Headquarters, Senior Analyst in the Australian Office of National Assessments. He currently serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Australian Army Reserves. He was a senior advisor to General David Petraeus in 2007 and 2008. He was then appointed special advisor for counterinsurgency to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Before this, he was chief strategist in the Counterterrorism Bureau of the US State Department, and he has also advised the UK and Australian governments, NATO and the International Security Assistance Force. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for a New American Security and an adjunct Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University.His work has been published in numerous publications. His books include The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains, and Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State, which won the Walkley Award 2015 for Feature Writing Long. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de David Kilcullen
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kilcullen, David
- Nom légal
- Kilcullen, David John
- Date de naissance
- 1967
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Arizona, USA
Sydney, NSW, Australia - Études
- Royal Military College, Duntroon
Australian Defence Force Academy
University of New South Wales (PhD ∙ Political Science)
St Pius X College, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Professions
- counterinsurgency expert
consultant
author
academic
ex-soldier
security analyst (tout afficher 7)
professor - Organisations
- Center for a New American Security
Johns Hopkins University
United States Department of State
Australian Army Reserve (Lieutenant Colonel)
Caerus Associates (CEO)
Arizona State University (tout afficher 7)
University of New South Wales
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 983
- Popularité
- #26,196
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 23
- ISBN
- 60
- Langues
- 2
This is possibly the most contentious claim in his essay, and it forms the centrepiece of his recommendations on how to defeat them: stop treating them like insurrectionists or a terror network, and start making war on them as if they were a state with fixed boundaries to defend, supply lines to protect, etc.
It’s a hard argument to discuss, because people get emotive about it. Whenever I have tried to discuss this idea, I have encountered people who get outraged and accuse me of being an ISIS apologist, because they can’t bear the thought of ISIS being considered a country. Strange to think that there are people who would label someone like Kilcullen an “ISIS apologist”, but there you are. I’m pretty sure this level of unhelpful emotion is a direct result of the scare-mongering politics that ISIS inspires here in Australia.
Kilcullen’s final thought is that defeating ISIS as a state is going to take considerable political will “without surrendering our civil liberties or betraying our ethics”. It’s a shame that, in an essay published in an Australian journal, he failed to discuss the fact that this is exactly what Australian politicians are doing as part of their fear-mongering response to the ISIS threat.… (plus d'informations)