Isn't insurgency an "actual modern war scenario"? It also tends to be the scenario where civilian casualties has the biggest propaganda impact. For a long time

Isn't insurgency an "actual modern war scenario"? It also tends to be the scenario where civilian casualties has the biggest propaganda impact. For a long time, the Pentagon lumped counter-insurgency under the term "operations other than war". That bugs me. Counter-insurgency is war! We spend a lot of time optimizing for potential near-peer conflicts with countries like China and Russia. Maybe it's prudent. But counter-insurgency has become, for better or worse, a big part of what we do. We should not be so bad at it.