Could China execute a special forces operation like the U.S. precision Maduro abduction?

The extreme precision of the U.S. in its Venezuelan operation shows why nations must be able to execute a complex special surgical strike, according to analysts who said China had long pursued the capability but had yet to master it.

In a complex joint endeavour integrating its air force, navy, intelligence agencies and space and cyber units, the U.S. military’s elite Delta Force special mission unit completed its precision raid in Caracas – from infiltration to exfiltration – in less than three hours, abducting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife and taking them to the US.

“Operation Absolute Resolve” was a culmination of years of developing multi-domain operations, lessons from decades of global engagement – both successes and failures – and the advanced integration of intelligence from many sources, according to Joshua Arostegui, chair of the China Landpower Studies Centre at the U.S. Army War College.

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