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The basic gist of the article is correct...small military forces conducting aggressive military patrolling while paired with a sensible long term civil program (caveated with the proper amount of "control" over the host nation and the population) works.
That has been proven time and time again.
It is nice to see an author take a dissenting view that GEN Petraeus "won the war". After being here for going on five years, I can definitely say that whether or not the FM was written, the lessons were learned by the majority of units and were being employed...the FM simply codified them. Also, since it is only a "guide", there are still some units that just don't get it, and until we fire those commanders and staffs that don't get it, no amount of professional education is going to help them at this point.
-STS
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