So the military faces the same regulatory reporting challenges banks do: ambiguous orders on what to report come down from regulatory committees with no context

So the military faces the same regulatory reporting challenges banks do: ambiguous orders on what to report come down from regulatory committees with no context attached, which you are in turn forced to interpret. When your interpretation is judged (usually unfairly) to be incorrect by some smartass in the press whose understanding of the ground realities is incomplete at best, resulting in a dustup which usually ends up with you being hauled in front of a regulatory committee to grovel, admit fault and promise not to repeat the mistake again. Bitter? Why would you think I'm bitter?