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This is merely nothing but darwinism forces at work.
But still it is not enough because you need an army to retake a country. Insurgencies never really put "real" pressure to surrender a country. There's a proverb, "A country without an army is not a country. An army without a country is still an army."
I see this as nothing but a requirement for para-military forces. This is the kind of problem that US is having because US lacked para-military forces or did away with it. If you look at US history, during the Indian wars, US had tremendous para-military experience but understandably US let those experiences, trainings, and lessons die during the 20th century. They dealt differently with insurgencies from regular military forces would do. Now US is waking up with the lesson of requiring a para-military force that would deal with COIN ops. What's new about it is that they will be projected outside of US territories into other parts of the world. I don't recall any country projecting their para-military forces anywhere in the world outside of their homeland.
Even during Vietname, US never really did COIN. I think they left the COIN to the South Vietnamese forces and US forces tackled the NVA and killed the VietCong during the Tet offensive which was not really a COIN op but a sort of jungle warfare mixed with a bit of dose of urban warfare.
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