Comment by RcouF1uZ4gsC

>You've just injured and identified most of your enemies, incapacitated them, completely broken their communication network and effectively given you weeks of disarray to do whatever you want to further disrupt them.

And affected their recruitment. Because of how pagers are worn, a significant number of injuries are going to be genital injuries.

Given, that your primary recruits are young men, that is important.

In that demographic, the young men may actually fear non-lethal genital injuries more than they actually fear death.