Since the "powers to be" are digging in (building their cantonments), it could be about civilian scouts, too.
Local people, like hunters. They know the sorroundings and could be excellent scouts and spys.
Scenarios like in "Ride with the devil" (Ang Lees western about a group of Missouri bushwhackers) come to my mind.
The situation there had something in common with europe in 1999; the big battles occured somewhere else (or are over); and militias are fighting skirmishes and hit-and-run-raids, while the army is dug in somewhere.
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