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David kilcullen is an australian soldierscholar whose writings on insurgency and counterinsurgency are the most influential since david galulas classic 1964 book on the topic. Kilcullen, globalisation and the development of indonesian counterinsurgency tactics, small wars and insurgencies, vol. The accidental guerrilla hardcover david kilcullen. Intelligence in public literature the accidental guerrilla. Caerus operates in challenging environments worldwide, from the field to the policy level, with a. Hence, traditional counterinsurgency theory has limitations in this context. Nagl psi classics of the counterinsurgency era praeger security international.
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