THE ART OF WAR AND PEACE, understanding our choices in a world at war

309pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2024

David Kilcullen and Greg Mills on the nature of modern war based on their decades of experience as policy advisors in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia and across Africa, and on recent fieldwork in Israel, Ukraine, Ethiopia and Taiwan, 

Greg Mills, Director of the Brenthurst Foundation, is a senior associate fellow and advisory board member at The Royal United Services Institute in London, and currently serves as strategic advisor to the President of Zambia.He sat on the Danish Africa Commission and the African Development Bank's panel on fragile states. He served four deployments to Afghanistan as advisor to the commander, has worked extensively in Columbia and with a variety of African governments. His books include Why States Recover; Rich State, Poor State and The Ledger (with David Kilcullen), on the reasons for failure in Afghanistan.

David Kilcullen is an theorist and practitioner of unconventional and guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism and a former soldier and diplomat. He served in Iraq as a senior counterinsurgency advisor to US General David Petraeus, then as a senior counterterrorism advisor to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and has served in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Columbia. His books include The Accidental Guerrilla, Blood Year, and Out of the Mountains.