By Professor David John Kilcullen

Books

Kilcullen D; Mills G, 2024, The Art of War and Peace: Understanding Our Choices in a World at War, Penguin Random House, Cape Town, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/art-war-and-peace-understanding-our-choices-world-war/9781776391851

Kilcullen D; Mills G, 2021, The Ledger Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

Kilcullen D, 2020, The Dragons and the Snakes How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, Oxford University Press, USA

Davis D; Kilcullen D; Spencer D; Mills G, 2016, A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Divergence, Hurst

Kilcullen D, 2016, Blood Year The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, Oxford University Press

Kilcullen D, 2015, Out of the Mountains The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla, Oxford University Press

Kilcullen D, 2015, Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year Terror and the Islamic State, Black Inc.

Maley W; Schmeidl S; Kilcullen DJ; Stapleton BJ; Hoadley S; Saideman SM; Rietjens S; Khosa R; Grare F; Goodhand J; Ibrahimi N; Mohr J, 2014, Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective, Maley W; Schmeidl S, (ed.), Routledge, London, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138810679/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu1_lan_4mx_8cm_2sec_00000_hottopic_afghan

Kilcullen D; Rosenblatt N; Qudsi J; Geo FM; Associates C; Project AS, 2014, Mapping the Conflict in Aleppo, Syria

Kilcullen D; Mills G; Pham JP, 2013, Somalia: Fixing Africa's Most Failed State, Tafelberg, Johannesburg, http://www.tafelberg.com/Books/15644

Kilcullen D, 2010, Counterinsurgency, Oxford University Press

Kilcullen D, 2009, The Accidental Guerrilla Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, Oxford University Press

Book Chapters

Kilcullen D, 2024, 'The Rise of China and the Consequences for Special Operations', in Kitzen M; Kiras J (ed.), Into the Void: Special Operations Forces After the War on Terror, Hurst & Co, London, pp. 73 - 88, https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/into-the-void/

Kilcullen D, 2024, 'Postscript: The Future of Urban Operations in Context', in Sullivan JP; Jones NP; Argomedo DW (ed.), Urban Operations: War, Crime and Conflict, Keypoint Press, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 345 - 359, https://www.urbanoperationsbook.com/about-the-book

Kilcullen D, 2023, 'Irregular and unconventional warfare', in Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare, pp. 166 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003299011-19

Rosenblatt N; Kilcullen D, 2023, 'How Raqqa became the capital of ISIS', in Understanding the New Proxy Wars Battlegrounds and Strategies Reshaping the Greater Middle East, pp. 115 - 150

Rosenblatt N; Kilcullen D, 2023, 'Syria 2011-19: Lessons for US proxy warfare', in Understanding the New Proxy Wars Battlegrounds and Strategies Reshaping the Greater Middle East, pp. 47 - 72

Kilcullen D, 2022, 'The case of Afghanistan: How wars end', in How Wars End Theory and Practice, pp. 123 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003317487-11

Kilcullen D, 2021, 'Foreword', in American Defense Policy, JHU Press, Baltimore, pp. xi - xx, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/american-defense-policy

Kilcullen D, 2020, 'Enhancing Special Operations for Sustained Counterterrorism Operations', in Bowman B (ed.), Defending Forward: Securing America by Projecting Military Power Abroad, FDD Press, Washington DC, pp. 93 - 93

Kilcullen D, 2020, 'A Military Perspective', in Frame T (ed.), INTERFET Lessons and Legacies from East Timor 20 Years on, Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd, Redland Bay, QLD, pp. 94 - 105

Kilcullen D, 2019, 'Strategic Culture', in Mansoor PR; Murray W (ed.), The Culture of Military Organizations, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 33 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108622752

Kilcullen D, 2019, 'Strategic culture', in Culture of Military Organizations, pp. 33 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108622752.003

Kilcullen D, 2019, 'The Roles and Utility of Ground Forces in Counterinsurgency and Stability Operations', in NIDS MGJ (ed.), A New Strategic Environment and Roles of Ground Forces, National Institute of Defense Studies, Tokyo, pp. 69 - 78, http://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/event/international_symposium/pdf/2018/e-04.pdf

Pearson S; Holloway JL; Thackway R, 2018, 'Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography Introduction', in Pearson S; Holloway JL; Thackway R (ed.), AUSTRALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATEGIC AND MILITARY GEOGRAPHY, SPRINGER, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73408-8_1

Kilcullen D, 2018, 'Geographies of irregular warfare', in Advances in Military Geosciences, pp. 103 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73408-8_7

Kilcullen D, 2018, 'Geographies of Irregular Warfare', in Pearson S; Holloway J; Thackway R (ed.), Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography, Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 103 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73408-8

Austin GD, 2018, 'Strategic Military Geographies in the South China Sea', in Pearson S; Holloway J; Thackway R (ed.), Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography, Springer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73408-8

Kilcullen DJ, 2014, 'Fumbling the baton: US civil-military relations in the Afghan war', in Reconstructing Afghanistan Civil Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective, pp. 10 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315749389-8

Kilcullen D, 2012, 'Counterinsurgency: The State of a Controversial Art', in The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, Routledge, pp. 128 - 154

Kilcullen D, 2012, 'Taliban and Counter-Insurgency in Kunar', in Decoding the New Taliban, Hurst Publishers, pp. 231 - 246

Kilcullen DJ, 2011, 'Deiokes and the Taliban: Local governance, bottom-up state formation and the rule of law in counter-insurgency', in Rule of Law in Afghanistan Missing in Inaction, pp. 35 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760082.004

Kilcullen D, 2010, 'Intelligence', in Understanding Counterinsurgency Doctrine, operations, and challenges, Routledge, pp. 141 - 159

Journal articles

Kilcullen D, 2023, 'Wake-Up Call: Pacific Islands are potential missile launch pads', Australian Foreign Affairs, pp. 27 - 41, https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/articles/extract/2023/04/wake-up-call

Kilcullen D, 2023, 'Stand-in Manoeuvre in a Contested Littoral Environment', Australian Army Journal, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.61451/225858

Kilcullen D, 2022, 'Russia's War in the Ukraine is Complex and Probably Already Underway', UNSW Opinion, https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/general/russias-war-ukraine-complex-and-probably-already-underway

Shearer AW; Kilcullen DJ; Pendleton G, 2021, 'Conceptualizing a model of antifragility for dense urban areas', Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 2021, pp. 75 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.14627/537705004

Kilcullen D, 2020, 'Liminal Manoeuvre and Conceptual Envelopment: Russian and Chinese Non-Conventional Responses to Western Military Dominance since 1991', Journal of Future Conflict, 1, pp. 1 - 14, https://www.queensu.ca/psychology/sites/webpublish.queensu.ca.psycwww/files/files/Journal%20of%20Future%20Conflict/Issue%202%20Fall%202020/Issue_2-Kilcullen.pdf

Kilcullen D, 2019, 'Feature Review: How to Defend Australia, by Hugh White', Australian Foreign Affairs, 1, pp. 117 - 6, https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/articles/review/2019/11/how-to-defend-australia/david-kilcullen

Kilcullen D, 2019, 'The Evolution of Unconventional Warfare', Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2, pp. 61 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.31374/sjms.35

Kilcullen D, 2014, 'Afghanistan in 2024: Muddling through?', Stability, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/sta.ej

Kilcullen D, 2011, 'Interview with David Kilcullen', International Review of the Red Cross, 93, pp. 587 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1816383111000397

Kilcullen D; Mills G; Oppenheimer J, 2011, 'The art of post-conflict economic recovery and reconstruction', Rusi Journal, 156, pp. 100 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2011.606656

Kilcullen DJ, 2007, 'Australian Statecraft: The Challenge of Aligning Policy with Strategic Culture', SECURITY CHALLENGES, 3, pp. 45 - 65, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000214006000004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kilcullen DJ, 2007, 'Subversion and countersubversion in the campaign against terrorism in Europe', Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 30, pp. 647 - 666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10576100701435746

Kilcullen D, 2006, 'Counter-insurgency redux', Survival, 48, pp. 111 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00396330601062790

Kilcullen D, 2006, 'Globalisation and the development of Indonesian counterinsurgency tactics', International Journal of Phytoremediation, 17, pp. 44 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592310500431521

Kilcullen DJ, 2005, 'Countering global insurgency', Journal of Strategic Studies, 28, pp. 597 - 617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390500300956

Conference Papers

Kilcullen D, 2022, 'Terrorism crisis: cosying up to the Americans?', in Blyth A (ed.), Howard Library Policy Perspectives Paper No. 4, University of New South Wales; John Howard Prime Ministerial Library, Canberra, pp. 1 - 11, presented at The Art of Crisis Management: The Howard Government Experience, 1996–2007, Canberra, 23 June 2022 - 24 June 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28559

Conference Presentations

Kilcullen D, 2021, 'A Future of Risk and Opportunity for the Indo-Pacific', presented at Pacific Future Forum 2021, Portsmouth, UK, 20 October 2021 - 21 October 2021, https://www.pacificfutureforum.com/EN/pages

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