David Kilcullen on the age of the urban guerrilla

A strategist who helped write the US army’s counter-insurgency manual, he was closely involved in the Afghanistan war. Author of ‘Out of the Mountains’, he predicts that wars of the future will take place in urban slums

The World Today Published 4 October 2013 Updated 5 October 2020 3 minute READ

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