Counterinsurgency expert Kilcullen called for a moratorium on drone strikes in Pakistan.
Evidence
David Kilcullen is certainly no pacifist. This former advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq is today considered to be one of the United States’ most eminent experts in the doctrine of counterinsurgency. In 2009 he, alongside Andrew McDonald Exum, co-signed an op-ed piece in the New York Times calling for a moratorium on drone strikes in Pakistan. Their diagnosis was simple: those operations were dangerously counterproductive for American interests. People were congratulating themselves on short-term tactical successes without seeing that they would pay dearly for them at a strategic level. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 268
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: what empirical evidence led Kilcullen to judge drone strikes counterproductive?
- XREF: connects to: CIA drones struck Pakistan every four days through 2012 despite its official peace