David Kilcullen

Recent Speaker

Author and Guerrilla Warfare expert

August 31, 2009

"The Accidental Guerrilla"

David Kilcullen is the author of The Accidental Guerrilla: fighting small wars in the midst of a big one, which was published in Australia in April. 

David Kilcullen is one of the world’s leading experts on guerrilla warfare and, rarely among his kind, has a PhD in political anthropology. He has served in every theatre of the ‘War on Terror’ since 9/11 as special advisor for counterinsurgency to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, senior counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, and chief counterterrorism strategist for the US State Department. He is a former Australian army officer with combat experience in South-East Asia and the Middle East.