the whitehall challenge : name any war since kadesh that has not been mismanaged. generals fight their last wars. napoleonThat's what I'm saying. The front lines are where you begin. The Pacific Islands were taken inch by inch during WW2. Korea was mismanaged but the strategy was to outflank the N.K and take real estate and keep it. The Vietnam conflict was a hodge podge of missions and exaggerated claims of "kills" and successes while the V.C. merely withdrew and took their dead and returned.
"know your enemy. and yourself" sun tzu
i still think we do not know either in the cold wat and its proxies.