Explaining counterinsurgency warfare
Charlie Rose interviews David Kilcullen and learns a lot about how to defeat insurgence. Kilcullen is an Aussie expert on the subject but he gives Gen Petraeus credit for the current successful strategy.
...Kilcullen is being modest, but he is probably right about Gen. Petraeus. It is an interesting interview.DAVID KILCULLEN: . to say. Let me say, though, I think being the senior counterinsurgency adviser to General Petraeus is probably a serious misnomer. You know, I mean .
CHARLIE ROSE: He is the senior adviser.
DAVID KILCULLEN: Yeah, if anybody ever less needed a counterinsurgency adviser, it's him. I was more just kind of helping around in the field. And he was -- he is the guy, I think, that has really put together what you just described, the new way of thinking about the environment, more so than, you know, anything any of us have done.
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