"Schooling a new American Army"

Roger Cohen reports some advice on guerrilla warfare and nation-building:

Aylwin-Foster portrays a U.S. Army isolated from the local population by the reproduction of "mini-Americas" on its bases; too easily swayed into believing that superior technology rather than human intelligence can overcome an insurgency; imbued with a moral righteousness about its mission that sometimes leads to blindness or cultural insensitivity; slow to adapt, and so driven by a can-do optimism that frankness about problems is not widespread among junior officers.