The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen

He is an advisor to NATO, and a consultant to the US and allied governments, international institutions, private sector companies and non-profit organizations seeking to make a difference in conflict and post-conflict environments and the developing world.īefore founding Caerus, Dave served 24 years as a soldier, diplomat and policy advisor for the Australian and United States governments. Scrutinizing major environmental trends - population growth, coastal urbanization, and increasing digital connectivity- he projects a future of feral cities, urban systems under stress, and increasing overlaps between crime and war, internal and external threats, and the real and virtual worlds.ĭave is the Chief Executive Officer of Caerus Associates a strategic research and design firm that specializes in innovative, often counter-intuitive solutions to the world's hardest problems: economic development, violent conflict, humanitarian assistance, energy shortages and climate change. His newest book takes us away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalized slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities. Go to for 20% off.David Kilcullen is the award-winning author of Accidental Guerrilla (2009) and Counterinsurgency (2010) and now Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (2013). Today's show is also brought to you by Organifi. On this episode, Jack and David discuss writing, warfare, the realities of counterinsurgency, and more. As the President and CEO of the research and development firm Cordillera Applications Group, he continues to advise private companies and governments around the globe.

He was a counterinsurgency adviser to NATO and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. He also served as the Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and as an advisor to General David Petraeus.

David Kilcullen is one of the world’s foremost counterinsurgency experts and is the author of the books The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla, Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency.ĭavid Kilcullen served in the Australian military for more than 20 years before being recruited as the Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism for the U.S.

The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen