One striking thing about the series is its title, "The General's Insurgency".
But some have harboured concerns that the UN's neutrality has been gradually eroded by growing pressure from the US and Britain for Unama, the political wing of the UN in Afghanistan, to be subsumed into the general counter-insurgency effort.
"The indigenous forces must be the defeat mechanism of the enemy's insurgency," General Allen said.
"What we don't see yet is a unifying leader of the insurgency," General DeFreitas said.
American support for the process is in part a recognition that "Oh, by the way, you are not going to kill or capture your way out of an industrial-strength insurgency," General Petraeus said, underscoring the scale of Taliban activity.
But by drawing a clear link between the narcotics trade and its role in the insurgency, General McKiernan was outlining what could be an important and expanding role for American and NATO troops as they seek to eliminate a source of money and weapons for the insurgency.
In recent weeks, the pace of attacks seems to have dropped, but in general the counter-insurgency seems far from won.
The conditions of President Hamid Karzai "are very clear, very established, and, certainly, we support them as we did in Iraq, as the U.K. did in Northern Ireland; this is how you end these kinds of insurgencies," General Petraeus said, referring to the conditions among others that the Taliban respect the country's Constitution and lay down arms.
General Petraeus' counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy insists on winning hearts and minds.
Human rights monitors say Indian forces have committed gross human rights violations in battling the insurgency, which General Musharraf never fails to describe as an indigenous freedom struggle.
