Beschreibung:
<jats:p>David Kilcullen, an Australian soldier-scholar who acted as counterinsurgency advisor to both the Pentagon and the State Department in the<jats:sc>us</jats:sc>War on Terror, is refashioning himself as an expert on geospatial security and urban crises. His<jats:italic>Out of the Mountains</jats:italic>is a Malthusian account of urban disorder in the global South, in what he calls ‘crowded, complex, and coastal’ cities as a terrain of future asymmetric warfare. This review situates his work within the intellectual context of the counterinsurgency & pacification epistemic community out of which it arises, and addresses why his book may have received plaudits from the socialist urban theorist Mike Davis.</jats:p>