Perhaps those teams could be backed by the threat of an air interdiction.
What interdiction is anticipated with foreign anti-narcotic agencies?
There has been progress with interdiction, which is a key element.
We pressed privately and publicly for a couple of extra battalions to be deployed along the frontier, so that a degree of interdiction could occur.
One of the problems involves the amount of time that people are allowed to carry on activities before any interdiction can be brought.
Interdiction of second echelon or follow-on forces is only one facet—albeit the most frequently quoted—of new technologies and of the tactics to accompany them.
They are also trained in the conventional interdiction role.
What is needed is interdiction—that is a word fashionable in air defence circles, meaning authoritative prohibition.