The Essential 4GW reading list: David Kilcullen

Fabius Maximus. 23 November 2007.
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/the-essential-4gw-reading-list-chapter-3-david-kilcullen/

A Disciplined Defense

Richard Betts. Foreign Affairs, November/December 2007. Hosted on the RealClearPolitics Website.
http://defensealt.org/HQx4TL

National Security for the Twenty-first Century

Charlie Edwards. Demos, November 2007. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website (printable .pdf file).

A Note on the State of Israel

Lutz Unterseher, Project on Defense Alternatives Guest Publication, Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute, November 2007.

The Case for Restraint

Barry Posen. The American Interest online, Nov-Dec 2007.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=331

Excerpt:

Iraq should therefore be seen not as a singular debacle, but as a harbinger of costs to come. There is enough capacity and motivation out in the world to increase significantly the costs of any U.S. effort to manage global politics directly. Public support for this policy may wane before profligacy so diminishes U.S. power that it becomes unsustainable.