> Everyone's an expert 19 days into a conflict that was absolutely foreseen in comprehensive United States military planning. Military planners foreseeing thin

> Everyone's an expert 19 days into a conflict that was absolutely foreseen in comprehensive United States military planning. Military planners foreseeing things doesn't mean much if their commander-in-chief ignores them and substitutes his own uneducated, unplanned feelings for their analysis. > What's clear is it the way this is being executed is a complete reboot of how prior Middle East conflicts were executed which suggests major ownership of prior problems and learnings applied The problem is that what they are doing has resulted in failure to keep the strait open. Whether they learned the wrong thing, or applied the wrong lessons, or did not learn anything at all, is an exercise left to the reader.