Over at The Danger Room, Noah Shachtman managed to score an interview with Dr. David Kilcullen, chief counterinsurgency adviser to General David Petraeus. Kilcullen seems to have taken a special interest in the power of the blog, posting regular contributions to the blog run by the Small Wars Journal, the most recent of which can be found here, and participating in the OSD’s series of blogger conference calls–excerpts of that conversation can be found here. Kilcullen tells Shachtman that the walls that have been constructed throughout Baghdad to stem the flow of insurgents and militias from one neighborhood to the next have put the Coalition “in a position to move against the [insurgent] havens.”
Go read the whole thing.
A picture shows a wall made of concrete blocks, which separates Baghdad’s
al-Adhamiyah district from a neighboring Shiite area in east Baghdad.
Wisam Sami/AFP
