Expert Lauds Obama's Afghanistan Approach - National Public Radio's All Things Considered - 25 March 2009.
David Kilcullen, a former senior counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, says the U.S. must change its policy in Afghanistan from chasing the enemy to protecting the people.
"We need to get into the business of making people feel safe and making them feel —to participate in a political process that doesn't involve violence," Kilcullen says...
"The review that the new administration has gone through has been a very detailed and sensible approach to what is an extremely difficult problem," Kilcullen says. "We need to make some fairly significant changes if we do want to win it."
Listen to the entire broadcast at All Things Considered.
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One - David Kilcullen
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