The reason that the US are loosing counter insurgency operations abroad in our time is because it would cost enormous amounts of resources to commit the kind of manpower required
and at the same time start conducting the sort of nation building operations that made Germany and Japan the nations that they are today.
Do I need to educate anyone that such policies were almost a copy-past of FDR's New Deal, tailor-cut for the particularities of Germany and Japan?
Or that the elites that dominate the commanding height of industry, finance and politics really don't want to go there?
But the Hamptons -as economist Mark Blythe so has poignantly informed us- are not at all defensible:
If such people are threatened by anarchy you can be sure they will put their hands as deeply in their pockets as their pockets have depths.
If there is a counter insurgency in the US and the police, FBI, ATF and Homeland Security prove to be inadequate then the government can deploy the National Guard.
The various US National Guards are staffed with war veterans, these guys are no pushovers.