100% - I'm sure they have quite been deliberately modeled on the 'cell' structure of decentralized insurgency crime-groups. For resiliency and as a plausible-deniability bulkhead of sorts to contain damage if one cell fails and is captured and interrogated by the good guys.
Fortunately there are also strategies to counter this.
Unfortunately, the strings might only lead to the bottom tiers. There's other lines that's above them. I sure hope we will be able to detangle them.
100% - I'm sure they have quite been deliberately modeled on the 'cell' structure of decentralized insurgency crime-groups. For resiliency and as a plausible-deniability bulkhead of sorts to contain damage if one cell fails and is captured and interrogated by the good guys.
Fortunately there are also strategies to counter this.