Rate My Professor David Kilcullen

Kilcullen's distinguished career spans 25 years as an Australian army officer, diplomat, and policy advisor, with operational experience in peacekeeping, counterinsurgency, and foreign internal defense missions across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe for both Australian and U.S. governments. Notable U.S. appointments include Chief Strategist in the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, and Special Advisor for Counterinsurgency to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Joining ASU in 2019, he is a prolific author whose key publications include books such as "The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One" (2011), "Counterinsurgency" (2010), "Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla" (2015), "Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism" (2016), and "The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West" (2020). Additionally, his influential papers feature "Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-Level Counterinsurgency" (2006), "Counterinsurgency Redux" (2006), and "Countering Global Insurgency" (2008).