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this is exactly the reason why JSOC built two units entirely on intelHUMINT is a shady job ... most informants work for money , when militancy declined their need also died out so we stopped paying them/abandoned them . Now the terrorists are paying them .
And now creating new solid connections will take years .
A DEVGRU / DELTA team is supported by local interpretors and informants, but have information through small untis of RRC, ISA and even their own Black Sqn, G Sqn.
UKSF employes SAS/SBS with SRR
You need an actionable intellegence unit supporting the assault team to do the job succesfully. This is not the first time this is happening.
In Praveen Teotia's interview with Maj Nimrith Thakur, he said that in Kashmir he learnt not to trust anyone but your own team, they would do various operations only to find an empty target. Same happened with American SOF in the first year of GWOT in Afghanistan, that is why before Op Annaconda, Delta force Col Pete Blaber took time and effort to create actionable intellegence.
Not that we did not do these things the right way, we learnt quickly in 1990s and early 2000s. Uske bad se kya hua bhagwan jane. The entire organization seems to have been lobotomized, they've stopped using brains, forgetting their own TTPs, SOPs over time.