Appropriate Missions
The special forces units that perform SR are usually dedicated to a variety of functions, and an SR mission may, quite reasonably, be one of information gathering in support of another function, such as counter-insurgency, foreign internal defense (FID), guerrilla/unconventional warfare (UW), or direct action (DA). Broadly speaking, these are all intelligence-related.
Another class of mission deals with locating targets, and planning, guiding, and evaluating attacks against them.
Target analysis could go in either place. If air or missile strikes are to be delivered after the SR team leaves the AO, the SR aspect is intelligence, but if the strikes are to be delivered while the SR team is present, possibly corrected by it, and the SR team will do post-strike assessment, the SR mission is fires-related.
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