Check out the technology and forces employed in the book by Mark Bowden “Killing Pablo”. Pablo was killed in 1993 by a Columbian strike force that worked in conjunction with a joint operations group. Imagine Centra Spike after a decade of refinement, intell, spec ops, law enforcement, and a crazed militia that scared the crap out of the narco terrorists, Los Pepes working in a plausibly deniable alliance. This was all done covert. Imagine how that works in open warfare.