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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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Shi'ite fighters from Mahdi Army rehearse their final tactics before advancing into Bo Hassan village

No holds barred in Iraqi war

A DECISIVE new phase in the war against Islamic State began this week.

David Kilcullen

TAKING ON TERROR

Remote control terror

A new wave of militants is emerging, those who are being radicalised without ever meeting their recruiters.

David Kilcullen

Opinion

We need a complete strategic rethink

THE West’s post-9/11 strategy has failed. We’ve got to do better now.

David Kilcullen

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Lessons of Afghanistan can guide us

FOR a change, the Western coalition should picture the endgame and plan accordingly.

David Kilcullen

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Militant Islamist fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province

Islamic State must be crushed

THE West must help bring order to the menacing arc of instability in the Middle East and Africa.

David Kilcullen

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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.

David Kilcullen

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