re: #329 prononymous

So what was the key to success in these cases? What was the cost?

The key in first and third cases was isolating the insurgents from the population and raising a local force to help do that. That played a role in the second case too, but with much more of a brute force element to it, driven both by the brutality of the insurgency and and the fact that nobody who mattered really knew or cared what happened to the insurgents.