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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Zolang westerse troepen in landen als Irak en Afghanistan in hun kampen blijven zitten, zullen ze de strijd daar nooit winnen. Ze moeten zich onder de mensen mengen en niet meer de bestrijding van de vijand, maar de bescherming van de bevolking centraal stellen. Maar nog beter is het dat westerse landen uit deze landen wegblijven.
Dat is de stelling van de Australische militair en counter-insurgencydeskundige David Kilcullen, die nauw betrokken was bij de recente nieuwe aanpak van de Amerikanen in Irak en ook op een aantal andere slagvelden rondkeek. Hij heeft in dit boek veel bijeengebracht over de wereldwijde strijd tegen het islamistisch extremisme, die op verschillende fronten heel eigen vormen kan aannnemen. Lees de volledige bespreking op www.boekenstrijd.nl… (meer)
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