It has nothing to do with "exposure and experience" but a willingness to confront conventional wisdom and ask hard questions about what has really brought about the lowered levels of violence in Iraq; and then consider reasonable policies for the future that align ends and means with strategic interests.
Specifically to your question I lay out an argument in a short article that is currently running in Armed Forces Journal, Our Coin Doctrine Removes the Enemy from the Essence of War, which is a response to another article, More Soup Please: Coin Manual Provides Guidance for Modern-day Tactical Commanders, written by Major Chris Rogers, also in this edition of AFJ, that criticizes my earlier Eating Soup with a Spoon piece.
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