Long contrasts the culture of American and British COIN since the mid 19th century, finding that UK practitioners were far more integrated into the regular military than allowed their own subculture, but that the British also were willing to engage in endgames of stability and protection of British lives and property rather than establishing democracy (and their imperial policies produced a pipeline of military-educated potential post-colonial rulers...although this creates is own problems like Idi Amin). There is a really nice 30 page chapter contrasting US and UK COIN in Iraq, which reaches the conclusion that no organizational culture in the world can help a strategy that is not attractive enough to earn the intelligence and legitimacy support of local allies.