Yes, you can use satallite's in dense forest, it is much easier than you think, especially when you have mechanized army running around in forest! Do you know what they need.. ROADS, TRACKS!
No you cannot use satellite there, as early smog in the morning blocks everything and during spring and summer specially in monsoon, nothing is visible except for vegetation in tropical forest, plus for night ops you cannot get a single clew out of it. Day time they are moving you won't get anything.
Secondly, the proxies like LTTE, Taliban are not stationary, their camps keep moving hence satellite imagery is not useful. The best suitable aerial recon is the drone but again, has got limitations over dense forest.
In afghanistan, yes you can use the satellite, but again by the time your picture gets processed, it's late. That's why US deploys drones to get the pictures out, against the moving proxies.
Why are you getting riled up? You can buy moles as well as you can infiltrate enemy organization with your own men.
You are the one talking crazy when you said- yes, SL funded LTTE. Learn to use right words when describing a situation. People will only understand what you write and not what you think. Funding moles inside Taliban or infiltrating it with your men or funding one faction is not equal to funding Taliban!!
Be precise, people are not enjoying a cup of tea with you here.
So before you send 10K soldiers in Afghanistan, you need to build assets and infiltrate Taliban, so that when our soldiers target them, they really have something to fire upon and not just some civilians or stones or etc. And this alone requires tremendous amount of funding.
And this infiltration into an organisation requires a lot of time. Building assets like Pakistan has built will take atleast 5 years. Otherwise you will be sending our soldiers just to target stones and rocks and getting ambushed from other side.
Hence government has to decide, where they want to put more funds. Is it Baloch insurgency, Afghanistan operation or POK destabilisation. And I doubt we do not have money for this.