Sadly, words written in 1924 have a lot of value today. We just don't learn....
http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/the-bombing-of-waziristan-162104725/
“The problem of controlling the tribal territory…has always needed special treatment by reason of the psychology, social organization and mode of life of the tribesmen and the nature of the country they inhabit.”
“Hesitation or delay in dealing with uncivilized enemies are invariably interpreted as signs of weakness.”
The British and Indian soldiers patrolling the dangerous hills of Waziristan, however, and the airmen who came to assist them didn’t have time to think about grand strategies. They had their hands full defending against attacks on their convoys, forts, and patrols, some of them waged by the very militias the British had formed and armed to aid in their conquest of Afghanistan. To defend the British colonial territory, the RAF devised a new form of frontier warfare, which its strategists called “air policing.”
http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/the-bombing-of-waziristan-162104725/