David Kilcullen: Fighting U.S. Military Might
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Channel: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs · 2009 · News & Politics
The U.S. is unbeatable in conventional warfare. "So the very power of the United States forces anybody that wants to fight us to fight us in non-conventional ways," says Kilcullen, "which means that we may have in the U.S. military the most perfectly developed, highly adapted, expensive military in history, adapted for precisely the wrong kind of war, because everyone will be going around the superiority that we've established. " This Carnegie Council event took place on May 6, 2009. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to http://www.cceia.org
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