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David KilcullenContributing Editor for Military Affairs

David Kilcullen served in the Australian Army from 1985 to 2007. He was a senior counter-insurgency adviser to General David Petraeus in Iraq in 2007-08, followed by special adviser for counter-insurgency to secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. He is the author of six books, including most recently The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West.

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Surge provided balm for sorry mess

Surge provided balm for sorry mess

IN my view, the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was an extremely serious strategic error. However, the task of moment is not to cry over spilled milk but to help clean it up: a task in which the surge, the comprehensive counterinsurgency approach and our troops on the ground are admirably succeeding.

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