Art of War and Peace

David Kilcullen has professorships in Australia and the US, and is a leading theorist and practitioner of guerrilla and unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, with operational experience over a 25-year career with the Australian and US governments as a light infantry officer, intelligence officer, policy advisor and diplomat. He served in Iraq as senior counterinsurgency advisor to US general David Petraeus, then as a senior counterterrorism advisor to US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and has served in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Colombia.

Greg Mills is a visiting fellow at the University of Navarra in Spain and the strategic advisor to several African leaders. He served for twenty years as the founding director of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, established in 2005 to strengthen African economic performance. He has directed numerous reform projects with African heads of government and served four deployments to the International Security Force in Afghanistan as the advisor to the commander. He is a regular contributor to international journals and newspapers and the author of numerous books including Why Africa Is Poor, Rich State, Poor State and The Art of War and Peace.