This article asserts technology won wars in the past, and is not winning this war because guerrillas are proving more adaptive. That’s nonsense on stilts. Technology alone has never won guerrilla wars. The decisive war-winning tactics taken in the past are simple, but brutal. Simply put, they involve starving or killing the population that supports the guerrillas. The tactics of the Indian Wars and the Civil War are what worked - the essence of it is that any population that supports the guerrillas will have its physical property burned to the ground. (Non-European warfighters have been much less considerate - their premier tactic has been to kill all, loot all, burn all. Japanese tactics during WWII were simply rehashes of tactics used by the Chinese and other Oriental armies since antiquity). The Roman attempted to get their denizens of their conquered lands to love them with massive public works, but they made sure that locals at least feared them. (Note that decimation is a word of Roman origin).
This new way of war is absurd. There’s a reason we bombed Dresden and other places. We ended up with a population that was willing to deal with us. A population that had supported the Nazis just a short time before.