Mate he is confused, in their country they use military to take care of internal threats, case and point being them shelling the insurgents in their tribal areas. so for them everything is military.
Besides, there is also the quetion of ego. Some people just cannot accept that they were mistaken, although that is the honorable thing to do.
And yes, for a person who sees his army, navy, air force, special forces, SSG, frontier force, policemen, rangers, and everybody else battling insurgents, and yet having to ignominously hold peace talks with them and bargain with them, perhaps it is difficult for them to understand that in other countries, policemen are more than sufficient to keep insurgents away, and never to even dream of bargaining.