David Kilcullen: how to beat the Islamic extremists
This high flying, plain spoken Australian strategist now thinks the unthinkable about the threat to the West
Kevin ChinneryOpinion editor
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There is a whiff of T.E. Lawrence about David Kilcullen ’s career.
Like Lawrence, he was a relatively junior officer plucked out to be one of the brains behind a successful military campaign that swept across an Arab nation. Like Lawrence, he rewrote the book on the unconventional warfare of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the process.
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