Alright, over the last few days i've been in a heated conversation with TheReno. We are discussing which style of war tactics is better, Mercinaries or Thieves. He likes the mercinaries style, go in and just waste everything in sight, use force extensively. but my prefrenceis Thieving Tactics, it may take longer but is worth it. Here let me lay it out for you, Step by Step...

1:Set up a hide-out near your targets base, allowing for a constant flow of information.
2:Send a man in to recon the opperation, taking pictures of important things like Security, Staff, Target, Possible Entrences, and Treasures.
3:Take the photos from recon and use them to set up a series of smaller missions that will feed into the larger mission later.
4:after achieving the smaller missions, you must make the master plan.
5:Set the master plan in motion, taking out the targets opperation.
6:Take out the target and snag what ever they where carrying that was important to the opperations, and snag some valuables at the same time.
7:Excape leaving the Target incopasitated, letting the cops get them and averting press attention away from you and twords the police.

Even Mercinaries need to use Thieving Ops to access secure areas of bases and locations, it's just good to have an experienced Thief on hand to carry it out.