The David Kilcullen Collection (merged thread)

[davidbfpo]

Just found this long newspaper article by David Kilcullen, a COIN SME, on an Australian website and starting to read it:http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opin...4aee8e279aa009

Added: this link is without an obstactle (tks to Bill M. overnight: http://www.terrorismwatch.org/2014/1...terrorism.html

He opens with:

After 13 years, thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, we’re worse off today than before 9/11, with a stronger, more motivated, more dangerous enemy than ever.

Whatever the reason — and there’s more than enough blame to go around, in many countries and on all sides of politics — the #result is that governments are suffering “task saturation”. So much is happening, simultaneously, in so many places that leaders are struggling to decide what to do, in what order. The danger is that we will engage in panicked, knee-jerk #responses rather than taking time to consider what an effective strategy looks like.



(Later) In short, what we’ve been doing has failed: we need a complete rethink. That rethink, I would suggest, needs to start with a threat analysis. What exactly is the threat we’re facing and how can we address it in ways that are cheap enough, effective enough and non-intrusive enough to be sustainable across the long term, without undermining the openness, democracy and prosperity that make our societies worth defending in the first place?

He does have some thoughts on a 'new' strategy, which on my first read appear to be "old wine in a new bottle" and just maybe aimed just at an Australian audience.


There is a 'Kilcullen collection' where this maybe merged to one day.