Small Wars Journal

Reuters Interview with Dave Kilcullen

Thu, 02/19/2009 - 5:35pm
Follow this link for an interview posted by Reuters today with Dave Kilcullen. One key take-away:

I see the Taliban as a loose confederation of shifting tactical alliances of convenience, and there's a lot of opportunity for negotiation and for splitting that Taliban alliance. But we've got to do that from a position of strength so that we are not negotiating for stay of execution (for Western forces), but we're negotiating for genuine national reconciliation.

More at Reuters.