Murtha took Pace's comments totally out of context. What he basically said was that victory would include the military, but it would also require the other things we are doing, like training the Iraqi security forces, rebuilding the infrastructure, nurturing the political process, etc.
Kaplan's paen to the SF, "Imperial Grunt" has a pore sophistic ated take on "military" means. The military has always relied on more than blunt force. Afghanistan is more typical of what our military interventions will be. He raises an intersting questioin, BTW, what happens when Yeman starts to run out of oil?