The Colombian Military Strategy of "High Value Targets" and the War System https://nacla.org/blog/colombian-military-strategy-high-value-targets-and-war-system

In Colombia the hyper security state is committed to continuing its war in spite of several recent good will gestures by the insurgency. Instead, the Santos government is still following the U.S.-Israeli designed military strategy of “high value targets” (HVTs). In other words, to assassinate the insurgency’s leadership and mid-level commanders in order to disrupt their command and control the structure of the organization.