You won't lose anything by removing it. Tbh in its current form the auto tasks are geared towards conventional ops anyway. Personally I always envisaged COIN ops requiring a lot more player input into the strategy, intel gathering and analysis than the purely tactical aspects of hunting baddies and blowing shit up. This reflects the reality of COIN that we are trying to replicate, although given the nature of ArmA and the need to shoot things, it is technically and doctrinally an assymetric force emulator that employs some terrorist traits, hence the name!

Give your players a steer with a high level mission but encourage them to use assets such as UAVs, recces, observation posts and build their own Intel overlay with Adv Markers, C2ISTAR reports and create their own tasks for follow up ops.

Highhead is a UAV master - he loves them for hunting terrorists. Great tools in the ALiVE environment and really change the game dynamic.

Markers, Spotreps and Reports get added to the Notes section on your map, and should be persisted between sessions if you've got the War Room all set up for your dedi server. Intel is fleeting - it's meant to simulate things like signal intercepts (SIGINT) to indicate suspected areas of enemy activity but it's no guarantee that they'll stay put, so it fades out quite quickly. The idea is to assess the intel and anything you pick up yourself, and assign tasks accordingly.

There are some hints and tips to operating in the asymmetric environment on the Wiki if you want to read further.