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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Yeah, but your Roman Governor at least could understand that when the local religious leader says "This guy needs to go or there's gonna be a war" that he needs to be see to act. Which sounds far beyond the competence of the State Department or Military, at least the Army.
The Roman experience in Judaea suggests that they did not possess the sort of competence you are attributing them to, I'm afraid.
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Weirdly that's where I pulled my example from. I just don't think our government could ever get to a point of even trying to put things in the hands of local elites. Especially after Afghanistan and the popular, if wrong, historiography on the situation.
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So, Roman Judaea. In 4AD, the Romans backed the wrong puppet and triggered a revolt and had to crack down violently. Then in 36AD Pilate (that one) the equestrian prefect turned a religious gathering into a massacre at Mt. Gerizim, in part because he didn't get their religion.
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