Your first example is a rosy picture of a military strategy whose only metric is "have we lost the war"? Your second example is a project with a very clear and

Your first example is a rosy picture of a military strategy whose only metric is "have we lost the war"? Your second example is a project with a very clear and fixed and time-bounded outcome which has no externality or had any requirement to serve as infrastructure. It makes as much sense to claim your examples as proof central planning works as it would be to claim the bulk of the automotive industry is capitalist and everyone drives cars. It might be true, but ignores all the negative externalities of the existing transportation network.