Not sure that's recipe for long-term success.
Champlain assisted the Hurons against the Iroquois and as a result got the French into long-term hostility which arguably lost them North America.
Magellan did the same in the Philippines and got himself killed.
Cortez, OTOH, used locals against locals and then crushed them all.
But picking sides in local disputes we by definition don't really understand is not by any means always a successful tactic.
Yes, I agree and that’s why I said we should pray for him. His time is really numbered, unless we can support his efforts with massive numbers. The idea that you have 4 to 6 Green Berets per tribe startles me.
He’s also going to be a marked man.
I don’t see how he or any of his men can be safe there in the long haul.