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To: JDN who wrote (196397)	2/14/2007 5:54:26 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793986

THis is a few weeks old but quite fascinating and pertinent. This author gets it. newyorker.com The New Yorker A Reporter at Large KNOWING THE ENEMY by GEORGE PACKER Can social scientists redefine the "war on terror"? Issue of 2006-12-18 In 1993, a young captain in the Australian Army named David Kilcullen was living among villagers in West Java, as part of an immersion program in the Indonesian language. One day, he visited a local military museum that contained a display about Indonesia's war, during the nineteen-fifties and sixties, against a separatist Muslim insurgency movement called Darul Islam. "I had never heard of this conflict," Kilcullen told me recently. "It's hardly known in the West. The Indonesian government won, hands down. And I was fascinated by how it managed to pull off such a successful counterinsurgency campaign"... Complete text: newyorker.com