A counterinsurgency takes exactly what the western world (with a few shining examples) are bad at handeling.. Time and patience.
It HAS been done before, question is are we willing to learn the lessons?
A counterinsurgency takes exactly what the western world (with a few shining examples) are bad at handeling.. Time and patience.
It HAS been done before, question is are we willing to learn the lessons?
You mean society? I don't think that if the opinions of the war fighters where the only one's that policy makers listened to, then the situation on the ground in (both theaters together) would be much different.