“Thus counterinsurgency is at heart an adaptation battle: a struggle to rapidly develop and learn new techniques and apply them in a fast-moving, high-threat environment, bringing them to bear before the enemy can evolve in response, and rapidly changing them… — David Kilcullen Copy Share Image
“My personal position on counterinsurgency in general, and on Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, could therefore be summarized as "Never again, but..." That is, we should avoid any future large-scale, unilateral military intervention in the Islamic world, for all the… — David Kilcullen Copy Share Image
“If I were a Muslim, I'd probably be a jihadists'; another: Just because you invade a country stupidly doesn't mean you have to leave… — David Kilcullen Copy Share Image
“Insurgents make fish traps, as do militias, gangs, warlords, mass social movements, religions (Jesus, for instance, called his apostles to be “fishers of men”)… — David Kilcullen Copy Share Image
“Thus counterinsurgency is at heart an adaptation battle: a struggle to rapidly develop and learn new techniques and apply them in a fast-moving, high-threat… — David Kilcullen Copy Share Image
“My personal position on counterinsurgency in general, and on Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, could therefore be summarized as "Never again, but..." That is,… — David Kilcullen Copy Share Image
