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David Kilcullen on when to go in and when to pull out of war
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Since federation Australia has fought alongside Britain and the United States in almost every major war of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But earlier this year Australia, following Britain’s lead, declined to join the US in its war on Iran. Military strategist David Kilcullen argues we should be doing more thinking for ourselves in terms of our own national interests, as well as bearing in mind the ethical considerations of both getting into, and out of, war. Guest: David Kilcullen, CEO at Cordillera Applications Group, UNSW Professor of International and Political Studies, and Professor of Practice in the C...
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Among our national habits is tagging along every time our great ally the United States sends its military over somebody's border. The outcome is usually humiliating, think Vietnam and Afghanistan, so it was a mighty moment when we declined earlier this year to join Trump's war on Iran.
But this unhappy record isn't an argument for never intervening in another nation's affairs. Indeed the UN decrees there can be a responsibility to intervene. How, why and when are mighty questions that were recently discussed by David Kilcullen
at the Ethics Centre in Sydney, a subject we thought we should pursue on Late Night Live. David Kilcullen is an author, strategist, expert advisor on counterinsurgency and geopolitical risk management, chairs at the University of New South Wales and Arizona State University,
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