Pacifying Urban Insurrections
A Review of Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
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David Kilcullen, an Australian soldier-scholar who acted as counterinsurgency advisor to both the Pentagon and the State Department in the us War on Terror, is refashioning himself as an expert on geospatial security and urban crises. His Out of the Mountains is a Malthusian account of urban disorder in the global South, in what he calls ‘crowded, complex, and coastal’ cities as a terrain of future asymmetric warfare. This review situates his work within the intellectual context of the counterinsurgency & pacification epistemic community out of which it arises, and addresses why his book may have received plaudits from the socialist urban theorist Mike Davis.
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Lin Biao 1965.
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Elliott 2010, p. 141.
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Kitson 1971, p. 24; emphasis added.
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Kitson 1971, p. 16.
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Peters 1996, quoted in Davis 2006, p. 202.
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Killebrew 2008, p. 12.
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Kilcullen 2000, p. vi.
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Kilcullen 2006b; Lawrence 1917.
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Kilcullen 2006a.
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Kilcullen 2009; 2010.
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Norton 2003.
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Schmidle 2004.
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Kleinfeld 2009; Sewall 2007. On solider-scholars and security wonks, see Khalili 2011, p. 1489.
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Kaplan 2013, p. 292.
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Malthus 1992, p. 249.
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Davis 2006, pp. 205–6.
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Davis 2014.
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Marx 1887, Chapter 25, Section 3.
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Davis 2014.
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Davis 2006, p. 202.
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Pacifying Urban Insurrections
A Review of Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
In: Historical MaterialismSearch for other papers by Laleh Khalili in
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David Kilcullen, an Australian soldier-scholar who acted as counterinsurgency advisor to both the Pentagon and the State Department in the us War on Terror, is refashioning himself as an expert on geospatial security and urban crises. His Out of the Mountains is a Malthusian account of urban disorder in the global South, in what he calls ‘crowded, complex, and coastal’ cities as a terrain of future asymmetric warfare. This review situates his work within the intellectual context of the counterinsurgency & pacification epistemic community out of which it arises, and addresses why his book may have received plaudits from the socialist urban theorist Mike Davis.
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