Call me a kiss-up, particularly after this, but when was the last time you saw an author publicly admit to coming off like a jerk in his book?
Mr Nordlinger also criticizes me (again fairly, I think, on reflection) for portraying myself as more culturally adept
Counterinsurgency made-man Dave Kilcullen — you remember him: counterinsurgency adviser to David Petraeus and Condoleezza Rice — has expressed skepticism about negotiating with the Taliban in the past. But that may have been a definitional issue, whereby ‘Taliban’ works as a stand-in for ‘Afghan insurgency.’ Because in More…
Remember the Center for a New American Security, the counterinsurgent-heavy defense think tank that used to be run by Michele Flournoy and Kurt Campbell before they became, respectively, undersecretary of defense for policy and assistant secretary of state for East Asia? Several other scholars at the think More…
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