I believe Luttwak had a piece in Foreign Affairs a few years back on Iraq. Has anyone read it? If so, how does it square with his piece in Harpers?

I happen to agree with his assessment on the political nature of insurgencies and the power that coercion plays. If readers are willing to suspend their patriotism for a while, they might find some interesting reading on how the rebels coerced the loyalists (and vice versa) in the future US during the American Revolution in such places as the "Neutral Ground" in Westchester County, NY, in northern NJ (Mercer and Monmouth counties, e.g.), and in the Carolinas. Many readers probably know about Banastre Tarleton's "massacre" after the battle at Waxhaws, but the rebels were equally as evil in the South.
We might have even more evidence about rebel atrocities had the Howe brothers and Cornwallis been victorious--the victors, after all, usually do right the history books