This book has much merit by adding to the existing base of knowledge. While Kilcullen's model is unique and well worth further investigation it is not possible to automatically apply it automatically to other insurgencies, since each insurgency is unique in the variables which compose it. David, ...
But it escalated into insurgency within weeks, as troops gunned down protestors, while regime death squads, shabiha (“spooks”), launched a campaign of kidnapping, torture and murder. As it turned out, Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, had learnt from watching what had happened to Ben Ali in Tuni...
Mafias will control immense zones outside the law (this is already the case) in Rio, Lagos, Kinshasa, and Manila. Formerly rural people, with a few members of the privileged classes, will be the primary organizers of new social and political movements demanding very concrete changes in people’s l...