David Kilcullen Quotes


We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.


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David Kilcullen, Australian Military Officer and Insurgency Expert, Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department, Senior counter-insurgency advisor to General David Petraeus, Quoted in David Ignatius, "The Dignity Agenda", October 14, 2007

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David Kilcullen
David Kilcullen
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David John Kilcullen FRGS (born 1967) is an Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert who is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm that he founded. He is a professor at Arizona State University and at University of New South Wales, Canberra.