Dr. David Kilcullen (left) asks a question of Lt. Col. Michael Infanti, commander of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., before visiting the Yusufiyah, Iraq Joint Security Station June 3. Dr. Kilcullen, counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq, visited much of the 2nd BCT's area of operations June 2 and 3.From Danger Room:
David Kilcullen, the Australian counterinsurgency guru, is joining a think tank that is likely to punch above its weight in shaping national security policy during the next administration.
In December, Kilcullen leaves his current post at the U.S. Department of State -- where he serves as special advisor for counterinsurgency to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- and joins the Center for a New American Security. CNAS, co-founded by last year by former Clinton administration officials Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy, is a small outfit compared with the American Enterprise Institute or the Brookings Institution. But as Yochi Dreazen of the Wall Street Journal observed earlier this week, it is shaping up as a "top farm team" for the new administration. Flournoy is one of the top members of Obama's defense transition team; she may be in line for high-ranking post at the Pentagon.
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