The Dragons and the Snakes, 9781925849158
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Dragons and snakes intertwine, reshaping conflict and threatening Western dominance.

The Dragons and the Snakes

how the rest learned to fight the west

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    30 March 2020

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Summary

Dragons and Snakes: A New Era of Hybrid Warfare

The first work to put forward a unified theory of how state and non-state threats now overlap and intersect.

In 1993, a newly appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have ‘slain a large dragon’ with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a ‘bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.’ Since then, the dragons (state enemies such as Russia and China) and snakes (terrorist and guerrilla organisations) have watched the US…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781925849158
ISBN-10:1925849155
Author:David Kilcullen
Publisher:Scribe Publications
Imprint:Scribe Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:30 March 2020
Weight:440g
Dimensions:232mm x 154mm x 26mm
About The Author

David Kilcullen

David Kilcullen is a professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of New South Wales and a professor of practice in global security at Arizona State University. A former soldier and diplomat, he served as a counterinsurgency advisor during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr Kilcullen is also the author of the highly acclaimed The Accidental Guerrilla, Out of the Mountains, and Blood Year.

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