The Birtle article was the subject of a Gian Gentile article and some SWJ posts here:
http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/200...provn/#c005780
Agreed that it was a thought-provoking article by an excellent scholar.
Also, Phil Ridderhof contributed this to SWJ about DoD's critical assessment of III MAF Pacification efforts (the CAP program) in the same vein.
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