The CS Monitor highlights some innovative tactics on part of US military forces, and the adaptability and dynamism of small-unit warfare has proven an essential element of successful counter-insurgency/counter-terrorism operations.

This approach to counter-insurgency?small-unit patrols seeking to entice large numbers of Taliban militants into engagements in an effort to fix them en mass to be picked apart by airpower and reinforcing ground units?is one example of the advantage of small-unit operations. Today?s ?small? wars, insurgencies, guerrilla and terrorism campaigns, and asymmetric warfare often involve shadowy and dynamic networks of militant groups, cells, and lone operatives whose advantages against larger conventional forces are found in their planning and operational dynamism, agility, adaptability, and clandestinity. In order to combat these networks effectively and advantageously, it is necessary that intelligence and military counter-terrorism forces adopt similar organizational structures, postures, and operations: equally agile and adaptive networks of small-unit counter-insurgency forces, buttressed by the larger intelligence and military organs.