David Kilcullen
| Lt. Col. (res.) David John Kilcullen |
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| Born | 1967 (age 49–50) |
| Residence | U.S.A. |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Ph.D., Politics, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, 2000 |
| Alma mater | Royal Military College, Duntroon |
| Known for | Theory and practice of counter-insurgency and conflict ethnography |
| Awards | United States Army Superior Civilian Service Medal |
David John Kilcullen FRGS (born 1967) is an Australian author, strategist and counterinsurgency expert and is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm that he founded.
From 2005 to 2006, he was Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department. Kilcullen was a senior counter-insurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in 2007 and 2008, where he helped design and monitor the Iraq War troop surge. He was then a special advisor for counter-insurgency to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Kilcullen has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for a New American Security and an Adjunct Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Highly critical of the decision to invade Iraq, he is on record as saying "There undeniably would be no Isis if we had not invaded Iraq." Kilcullen has written four books: The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains and Blood Year
Kilcullen graduated from St Pius X College in 1984. He then attended the Australian Defence Force Academy and completed a Bachelor of Arts with honours in military art and science through the University of New South Wales and graduated as a distinguished graduate and was awarded the Chief of Defence Force Army Prize in 1989. He took his army officer training at the Royal Military College, Duntroon. After twelve months of training in Indonesia, Kilcullen graduated from the Australian Defence Force School of Languages in 1993 with an advanced diploma in applied linguistics. He is fluent in Indonesian and speaks some Arabic and French.
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