David Kilcullen

David Kilcullen, the Australian anthropologist who partnered with U.S. General David Petraeus to implement the American “surge” counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq, spoke via satellite to the Conference of Defence Associations Institute seminar in Ottawa today.

David Kilcullen, former counter-insurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, argues that American drone attacks in Pakistan do more harm than good.

From George Packer’s New Yorker blog (and by the way, I spent part of the week wondering at the very existence of such a thing as a “New Yorker blog”), an interview with another smart guy, David Kilcullen, who isn’t very sanguine about the current state of play. (If you have an hour, here he is on Charlie Rose a year ago.) Highlights: