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We shouldn’t let poorly founded fears let us take risks with our prosperity

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.

Is Afghanistan ready to take its fate into its own hands? Not yet.

I wrote this article about tackling the Afghan insurgency for our website.