Scooter, I am saying even in the Golden Age of SF it did not really understand its mission like say the Soviets understood revolutionary warfare. SF was birthed under the wrong model. We should have not done the OSS OG model but the OSS DET 101, 404, 505 (sister units of 101, check your history). These were the more correct model to pattern ourselves after, (see Pollack essay on the birth os SF, as it used to be under the PSYOPS Corp). The former Commanders and members of MACV-SOG admit that when their directive to start an insurgency in North Vietnam was shut down that organization lost its strategic impact.
We lack a full understanding of the Political Warfare that goes on in the Village War. Read this as it lays out how a VSO takes over a village one village at a time. It was written by an SF Officer as his thesis for one of the schools in Leavenworth. It is now on the Small Wars reading list after I sent it to them. It should be in every SF library. And you can see it happening today in the US.
https://www.amazon.com/Village-War-R...3963335&sr=8-3
Rules For The Radical needs to be read by every SF Operator too as it is a blueprint for local political warfare.