The requisite tool kit for COIN is filled with nation building tools: providing security, schools, government, police, military, judicial system, hospitals, infrastructure, sanitation, and economic development. We are supposed to make the indigenous people to stop and fight insurgents (how), and fight the insurgents (how)? We are also supposed to know the culture and the ramifications of it (how)? We bask in our glory when twice a month we have a good drone strike. We are regressing and not being critical thinkers in my opinion.