pancho villa deployed twice as many troops and thousands pursued him over the toronto kick -- geronimo campaign which was 5,000 troops but it was the earlier smaller manhunt that was successful and only because the party of five track down the apache leader and convinced him to surrender. the hunts for noriega and also in somalia pursued the individual and the urban environment where the other failed suggesting it was the variable also to point* out the smaller advisory team, not large supply mince instrumental for the possible escobar or shake rivera. the doubting that it would increase the chances of capturing bin laden but the cia official in charge of the afghan campaign told president bush early december that no one has enough troops to prevent any possibility of escape in a region like that. if we applied planners to operation anaconda with the exception would take between 90 and 100 troops to block each path in the valley, it would have taken between 9,000 and 1500 u.s. troops too completely cut off the 150 passes and escape routes out of 44 that was logistically impossible asia