She's not wrong. It's not the kind of op he's used to, and from what he's observed, most of the people here wouldn't follow orders even if they knew what they were doing.

He turns back to the white board, mouth in a flat line. Then he draws a little star and fills it in with the red marker, and points it at the village. "They should just send me," he says. "I can get in and out alone with minimum casualties and retrieve their components."

He doesn't know the components are people.