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In The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen draws on his experience in Afghanistan and Iraq to argue that counterinsurgency in the post-9/11 era often produces “accidental guerrillas” — civilians driven into insurgency not by ideology, but by insecurity. The book analyzes how modern warfare, social disruption, and destructive military tactics inadvertently fuel insurgencies, and proposes strategies for winning hearts and minds by focusing on population security, governance, and local alliances rather than brute force.

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