I am inclined to agree with Wilf on this.

Civil Government deals with the root causes of an insurgency, the politics, grievances, governance, resource issues et al.

The security forces deal with the symptoms of insurgency - the armed groups.

Both must happen in concert and neither by itself will be successful in the long term.

The problem we have at the moment is that the inability of the wider government to deal with the wider issues has lead to the military taking more of a role in these, which has diffused military effort and clouded (not to say confused) military thinking.