Biography
David Kilcullen Ph.D. is a leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. A former Australian Army officer, he left the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2005 and is now a senior civil servant, seconded to the United States State Department. He is currently serving as Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser, Multi-National Force - Iraq, a civilian position on the personal staff of American General David Howell Petraeus.
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American Photo(Magazine) - January/February 2008 Edition.
Reading : Reading about Michael Kambers amazing photographic coverage of the Iraq war. Just so you can guys can see the image I'm looking at as I read the article :
I hate to admit it but war is both a romantically beautiful poem and horribly catastrophic song of death all at the same time.
American Photo(Magazine) - January/February 2008 Edition.
... horribly catastrophic song of death all at the same time.
The "What Are You Reading Right Now?" thread here at DP. Duh!
I was just rereading Animal Farm for the millionth time. The more you read it, the more thinly veiled the symbols become. :2razz:
I was just rereading Animal Farm for the millionth time. The more you read it, the more thinly veiled the symbols become. :2razz:
How to Win in Iraq—and How to Lose
Arthur Herman
April 2007
The Shock Doctrine
Here's an interview with Naomi Klein on DemocracyNow. The concept is interesting, but a bit too far fetched I think...
I'm not so sure about collective psychological impairment. It reminds me of Freud's take on evolution and collective regression. It might just be spin off of this same concept.
Oh, and I'm reading Dan Brown's Digital Fortress.
A little something for everyone, I suppose. :-(
I haven't gotten very far, but the beginning is all about the "work" of a Canadian psychiatrist who was contracted by the CIA, working on what eventually became MKUltra. Pretty interesting, there is a bunch about Milton Friedman and the "Chicago Boys" and the schemes they had, and how they could only be enacted after some type of shock.
Yea, Naomi Klein is a fan of Friedman, who is a great economist in his own right. But the way she tells her theory makes it sound so much like science fiction. I'm sure you'll have fun with it though.
Didn't Pinochet try Friedman's theory?
Ooh I got that for Christmas. It's very funny.I agree. I have Animal Farm and 1984 in one book. Right now I am reading Colbert's I Am America and so Can You.
Yeah it is! It's really intelligent and it has some great lines. But it's also a really blatant attack on the USSR. XDit's the story with the communist pigs? First book I read in English, 4 or 5 years ago!
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