Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency

[SWJED]

The New Yorker has placed Knowing the Enemy in their free to view section.

In 1993, a young captain in the Australian Army named David Kilcullen was living among villagers in West Java, as part of an immersion program in the Indonesian language. One day, he visited a local military museum that contained a display about Indonesia’s war, during the nineteen-fifties and sixties, against a separatist Muslim insurgency movement called Darul Islam. “I had never heard of this conflict,” Kilcullen told me recently. “It’s hardly known in the West. The Indonesian government won, hands down. And I was fascinated by how it managed to pull off such a successful counterinsurgency campaign.”...

[marct]

The New Yorker has placed Knowing the Enemy in their free to view section.

Excellent article. Now, if we can just get some more Anthropologists into all the Coalition militaries or more of the military into Anthropology.

Marc

[Bill Moore]

Thanks SWJED, this is the best article I have read lately. Very relevant and useful from the tactical to strategic levels.