Sunday Sunday
I’m not sure how people actually manage to have Sundays ‘off’ but if you do here are a few top-notch pieces to go with your newspaper supplements and roast dinners.
Mike Innes’ excellent CTlab review of David Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerrilla:
Soldier, scholar, linguist, adventurer. David Kilcullen, a former Australian special forces officer with a PhD in political anthropology, is unique in the level of influence and cachet he wields in Washington. A career soldier-scholar, his portfolio derives from a wide range of military appointments, combat operations, and scholarly research. As a senior counterinsurgency advisor to Gen. David Petraeus and counterterrorism advisor to the State Dept., that expertise was tested and refined in America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As an Australian in D.C., he cuts an almost exotic swath: appealing, no doubt, to a distinctly American appreciation of rugged individualism in any form, Kilcullen’s latter day renaissance man is a romantic figure, a throwback, it would seem, to days of empire when orientalist advisors could be brought in from abroad.
Steve Corman at COMOPS Journal reviewing the recent NATO Conference on Strategic Communication.
Andrew Exum interviews Pete Singer about Wired for War at Abu Muqawama.
Phronesisaical warns about Obama’s Military Tribunals.
Jim Rossignol guest-blogs at BLDGBLOG, Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds.
