From the CSIS Brief on Lebanon 2006 Posted by Jedburg here
Move into Hezbollah ambushes in obvious terrain areas; bunched armor and troops and increased vulnerability.

...but, my impression of modern soldiers is that solid and well honed trade skills is more useful than the "I can track a hamster through the leaf canopy," type of stuff that gets hyped. Those skills can best be accessed by leveraging the Indig, who may be persuaded to work for you. The IDF do not even try to teach tracking. They just hire the Bedouin.
I would suggest that while hiring locals can be a good technique, one thet the US Army on the frontier instutionalized, it is not the complete solution. I don't see a need to track hamsters either. But I do see a need to learn to read the environment around you, an ability that gets dampened in a play station, double decaf double mocha world.

Tom

PS

Then again hamsters may not be as innocent as they first appear