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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned To Fight the West
[Hardback - 2020]
david kilcullen
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Publisher: Hurst & Company | ISBN: 9781787380981 | Pages: 336
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Just twenty years ago, people spoke of the US as a unipolar titan, stalking the world stage with more power than any empire in history. Yet, even in 1993, the newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Leading soldier-scholar David Kilcullen reveals what the West's opponents have learned from the last decade-and-a-half of conflict, and how this has shaped their strategies. He investigates what has happened to both the 'snakes'--terrorist and guerrilla organisations--and the 'dragons'--fellow state enemies, such as Russia and China. Dragons and snakes alike have watched the US struggle in Iraq and Afghanistan, and mastered new, cutting-edge tactics in response: hybrid warfare, political manipulation, urban asymmetric attacks, and modular, portable technology. Put together, these pose a serious new threat to America and its allies, disabling the advantage of Western military superiority. The Dragons and the Snakes is a compelling, counterintuitive look at this new, vastly complex global arena. It will not only reshape our understanding of anti-American capabilities, but also show how the West can respond, given the increasing limits to US power.

About the Author

David Kilcullen is an author, unconventional warfare expert, and former soldier and diplomat. He was a senior counterinsurgency adviser during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Greg Mills, Director of the Brenthurst Foundation, has advised African governments, and served in Afghanistan with COMISAF. His books with Hurst include Why States Recover .

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