What is a "populace based conflict?"
I only ask as all Wars are about political outcomes. It's the authority to which the people defer and obey, which is the issue, not they themselves. That is the same for all human conflict.
In those terms, fighting the Taliban is no different from fighting the Waffen SS. The prize was not the German people, no more than the prize is the "Afghan" people. The prize is someone exercising a useful degree of authority over them.
The nature of the fighting however, may have to be different, for POLITICAL reasons, as Clausewitz explains.
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