Originally Posted by
The Old Fat One
Whatever the rights and wrongs, the military outfits involved need to learn and if they can do better, they must do better.
Nothwithstanding that, I'm ex military so I get "fog of war" OK
Then I suspect, fellow old timer, that you know how hard they (the military still at it) work at getting it right.
Remember: all the things you and I learned in our years in uniform, before we were put out to pasture, did not just flow into the young minds in a Vulcan mind meld. As turnover happens, some lessons are retained better than others. It's kind of like why aircraft still crash now and again.