He's just about fully convinced himself that he is Thucydides.
ROTFL!! I do believe that is the best description of Vic I have ever seen
But he has written on counter-insurgency as you can find merely by searching. Of course, counter-insugency wasn't a large part of ancient wars since it was not technically possible to be both precise and effective in applying force.
That hasn't been true since at least our successful occupation of the Phillipines. And the Iraq insurgency doesn't have fighters that can compare to the warriors of the Moro.
But we do. Those are our true "privileged" of America.