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Originally Posted by miclo18d

I agree with you! I also have Short Tab Long Tab Syndrome and I view them as assets, not holding me back.

DA can fall under UW. You don't disrupt services with UW. You do it with DA in a UW environment. Knowing how to conduct DA is an asset that many don't have! Yes the 18x pulled a great idea but did he have security or support for the assault team or did he just pull a "I saw this on TV"?

UW is an environment as is FID. These are also mission sets. Within those mission sets are DA, SR, CT, etc. Yes those missions can also be stand alone unilateral missions, but in UW and FID, you have to train your G's to conduct DA to be effective in the UW environment.

Afghanistan was a UW mission at the beginning and quickly changed to FID. Inside the FID mission, there is also DA. We pulled some daring DA missions to kill or capture facilitators within the Kandahar AOR using our indigenous forces. Zero fatalities with several bad guys being brought in.

UW was not a single game in town, unless HUMINT operations are now called UW? As PBR stated you work with what you are handed.

Excellent points; I agree. My statements were centered on DA as a unilateral mission; of course, if you are to be successful in the UW environment you should, but not necessarily must, be able to perform DA missions as a component of the UW mission. I include the caveat because in at least one 'situation' I was asked to respond to (pre-911 -- after I retired but because of my SF background while working for the FBI on a task force, by a third world party), non-attributable sabotage and other clandestine ops were the options available due to the stranglehold the enemy had over the population. Needless to say, they didn't like my advice that would have them doing that for fifteen to twenty years before engaging with guerrilla forces.

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