Every COIN situation is different and orthodoxy leads to failure. Most people involved in the actual practice know that or learn it real quick.
Warfare, like anything else, is subject to fads. So, I guess you mean it short circuits the current fads and bloviation, much of which is aimed simply at pointing people in a direction they have not traveled before. For the military or government practitioner that has the benefit of providing a reasonable base of acquired knowledge on which to base sensible and METT-TC derived solutions -- most of which will not follow the 'orthodoxy' and will transcend the fad and bloviation factors. In any specific combat situation, the METT-TC factors overrule all else; he who succumbs to norms and orthodox solutions will get quickly clobbered.
For the casual observer and armchair punter, OTOH, it's fodder for a lot of nebulous argument. That is a benefit because fads and orthodoxy should
always be challenged. As Foust does.
Read much of the stuff there, like those roads, some pluses, some minuses...
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