The engagement in an asymmetric war involves a host of warriors on the ground and at keyboards watching and watching and watching. Their weapons are data gathering devices.
Asymmetry is associated with heterogeneous, a lack of uniformity. There are many willing to rat on the bad guys that have fled to concentrations of perceived safety.
In Wiziristan and Yemen, the asymmetry is killing the bad guys.
You didn’t say anything everyone doesn’t already know. WHO are our eyes on the ground?