Dr David Kilcullen argued in The Australian that Western efforts to secure peace in Iraq and Afghanistan had been, “a bipartisan, multinational, equal-opportunity screw-up. After 13 years, thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, we’re worse off today than before 9/11”.
As Australia once again joined the United States to fight in the Middle East, CIS presents What are we Fighting for? Islamism and the Threat to Liberal Ideas, Dr Kilcullen speaks at length on the challenges abroad and at home and our best strategies for prevailing.