So the justification for Snipers is the apparent chronically poor training of platoons?
Every worthwhile platoon should be able to generate 4-7 teams of 4-5 men. In WW2, they did. 20-man close reconnaissance patrols of 4 x 5 man teams were routine.
Reconnaissance is a core infantry skill. No excuse not to be good at.
Poor training and leadership is likewise not an excuse to maintain the status quo.
If infantry training and employment wants to stay stuck in the stone age, then all you say is true, but then you have to understand the historic beliefs and infatuations with the "classical" roles of Snipers and Reconnaissance may not be examples of best practice, but actually products of wholly thinking and poor training.
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