text: Direct Methods for Countering Insurgencies
  Figure 9-2. Example of a possible transition framework
  OTHER DIRECT ENABLERS
  9-41. The Army and Marine Corps can also integrate other direct enablers into a counterinsurgency
  operation. For example, indirect fires can be integrated into an ongoing counterinsurgency effort. Special
  forces have the capability to perform direct actions. These are short-duration strikes. Special forces can also
  conduct other small-scale offensive actions conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive
  environments that employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or
  damage designated targets. As with indirect enablers, the Army and Marine Corps have a wide range of
  direct capabilities that can be integrated into an ongoing counterinsurgency effort. Tactical units that can be
  successfully integrated into a host nation’s efforts to perform cordon and searches or raids could be an
  effective capability for any counterinsurgency operation.