EWI's David Kilcullen, an influential military adviser to Western governments, on the possibility of negotiating with the Taliban.
An Australian counter-insurgency specialist who was a technical adviser to Washington on Iraq in 2005-08, Kilcullen was speaking on Wednesday on the sidelines of a conference hosted by the EastWest Institute security thinktank.
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