[dogman144]

The counterinsurgency lessonz of note from a doctrinal standpoint have little to do with how you framed it and I recall it. So before we go in on Total War is the Best War, your framing feels convenient vs actually thought out.

How to do counterinsurgency, as I ran into it from the “what works” angle in the formal setting to learn these things.

- the Malaya/British example. Notably Britain doesn’t run Malaya anymore and that country doesn’t exist. This is the direction you’re arguing works fwiw

- COIN and Patraeus (sp), assuming conditions were correct across the board and you could get a unit commander and all related stakeholders to try it. Notably we didn’t “win the insurgency” in Afghanistan

So there are both well established COIN case studies, one heavy and one light, both didn’t work, and no overlap with what you’re arguing.