Hence I think that either a "managing the barbarians" or, to put a softer edige on it, a peacemaking/peacekeeping approach is more attuned to today's realities than is the kind of 1960s conceptualization of counterinsurgency that we still cling to.
I would tend to agree but with a caveat; you have to know what you are doing as you do it. Otherwise you will simply be reacting to events, as we did for too long in OIF.

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Tom