England defeated the Malaya insurgency in the 1950s.
England defeated the Boers in 1900.
We defeated the Plains tribes by destroying their “base camps” ( villages
and horse herds), cutting off their food supply (buffalo) and confining those captured in massive POW camps (reservations).
To defeat an insurgency, you have to destroy their bases.
To defeat the Afghan insurgency, we have to destroy their Pakistan bases
and cut off their money supply.
Simple, actually.
We let the Viet Cong have bases in Cambodia and Laos an N. Vietnam,
and never cut off their supplies or destroyed their bases outside of S. Vietnam.
Result: we grew tired, and gave up.
“England defeated the Boers in 1900.”
Through the use of concentration camps for the families of the insurgents.
Hitler’s role model.