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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Kilcullen, David

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A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus, Kilcullen's vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq. Now, in "The Accidental Guerrilla," Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror.

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Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 346 p. Illustrations, black & white, Maps, Figures. Notes on Sources. Notes. Index. From Wikipedia: "David John Kilcullen FRGS (born 1967) is an Australian author, strategist and counterinsurgency expert and is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm that he founded. From 2005 to 2006, he was Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department. Kilcullen was a senior counter-insurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in 2007 and 2008, where he helped design and monitor the Iraq War troop surge. He was then a special advisor for counter-insurgency to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Kilcullen has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for a New American Security and an Adjunct Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has written three books: The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, and Out of the Mountains."
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  • Title The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
  • Author Kilcullen, David
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition Presumed first edition/first printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
  • Date 2009
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 70281
  • ISBN 9780195368345 / 0195368347
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.46 x 1.24 in (23.72 x 16.41 x 3.15 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Iraq War, 2003-, War on Terrorism, 2001-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008054870
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.425

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  • Choice, 02/01/2010, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 05/03/2009, Page 18
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/05/2009, Page 41

About the author

David Kilcullen was formerly counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq and to the NATO Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and currently serves as a consultant to the U.S. government. Kilcullen is also Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

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