Others, like Sir Robert Thompson, himself an ex-Chindit, have asserted that the idea behind the Chindits was a sound one, but that they were just badly handled and used in operations for which they were not properly equipped or trained, for example in static defence.
Vseeno pa je priznal, da je potreba po manjših enotah, ki bi povzročale težave v sovražnikovem zaledju, a pri tem ni razumljivo, ali je mislil na V Force ali Force 136.