John Robb argues that, “After four painful years, the US military has stumbled upon . . . the only model for fighting a mature open source insurgency: a decentralized model of security that forgoes centralized defense/police forces in favor of a plethora of independent militias.”
There are, however, two minor downsides to this approach:
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1. “It’s fairly obvious that the US military doesn’t have the skill sets for successfully managing this level of complexity … ”
2. “It also runs counter to all of the classic goals of counter-insurgency and more importantly, the stated (and implied) goals for the US in Iraq … “
