I admittedly have no idea what any of this is like, but wonder if the reconnaissance was a problem. I’m sure things often don’t go according to plans, but it seems as though there were some errors by the central command people in estimating the size of the opposition, and maybe even in realizing that the mountains would make communication difficult, or that they could be spotted by civilians.
The recon was bad.
The radios are bad
The phone deal went bad
They had to make decisions theyare not trained for, beyond their pay grade that were hard to swallow, because of the no communications
I don’t know either Just watching the movie