I'm back at @ForeignPolicy writing about the task of training auxiliaries, comparing American failures with Roman successes.https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/03/us-military-auxiliary-armies-afghanistan-rome/ …
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My own view is instead that we need to trim back our objectives to things which can be achieved largely through local institutions. That means we can't fix every problem! It places hard limits on what an intervention can achieve and we need to accept those limits.
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But in either case, we need to give up the notion of getting maximal solutions out of minimal investment and dislocation. These are trade-off questions and worse yet, ones where 'split the difference' approaches generally fail.
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So if full on imperialism, complete with semi-permanent colonial governance is politically unacceptable (and in my view it should be) then you have to accept that only a very limited range of objectives - mostly just picking which pre-existing local elites rule - are possible.
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