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Imagine for yourself a scenario in which a U.S. special operations unit, in the dark of night and in a foreign land, has just successfully raided a compound that intelligence reports indicated might be associated with a known target or intelligence information of high interest. The smoke is clearing, the chaos of combat is fading into a more stable situation, and all that remains to be handled – before exfiltrating from the area – is what is known as “sensitive site exploitation” (SSE).
SSE refers to how a special operations unit processes on-site what it has found, so as to not leave anything or anyone important behind when it departs. While popular media often depict such scenes as clear-cut and obvious, where the “important” intelligence and/or high value targets are easily identifiable – think of a target as well-known as Osama bin Laden – it is rarely that simple. The important persons or intelligence information are not usually easily identifiable.
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