Hmmmm... The book on how to collect relevant and actionable intelligence on Irregular Forces is vast and well covered. Maybe someone should study it and make it happen.

Basically MG Flynn could have cut to the chase by saying, "people know how to do this stuff. How come we do not?"

Sorry to sound sniffy, but this is another classic case of most informed folks knowing what to do and what works better rather than worse, and then deciding not to do it, because of some human emotional need.