[Fyron]

You have probably considered this, but the way I look at intel is that it is just another way of waging war.

Not as the system stands now. If it was not so broken, then it would be another way to wage war. But as it is, it is a way to either slaughter the enemy with no chance of reprisal (on the intel front), or it is a way to waste a lot of facility slots on both sides with nothing happening.