Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen is Australia\u2019s most influential contemporary military strategist. A former adviser to General Petraeus and former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, his new book, The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, examines the complex new world of modern warfare, featuring the state competitor \u201cdragons\u201d and the non-state guerrilla and terrorist players, the \u201csnakes.\u201d A remarkable synthesis of three decades of military and political history, this expert analysis of the new nature of conflict is as illuminating as it is disturbing.
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