Well....it shouldn't.
Tactical military assessments and potential strategies are constantly being kicked around, and improved..and I would not even attempt to critical think my way into anticipating exactly what they will do.
Frankly, it's not in our pay grade to do so. We pay them to do it and we just live our lives.
This is a attitude that you have to adopt, especially if we are going to do another round with the Rooskies...
When I was only 8 or 9, I used to lay in bed and pretend what it would be like when the sky lit up from a nuclear blast, knowing that it could happen at any moment on any day.
We had to learn to live with that.
Because you have no control over it. Just as the southern coastal areas live with hurricanes, and the Midwest with tornado's, and California with earthquakes.
So.....go on critical thinking, but don't let it ruin your day.
Apollo 13 comes to mind of some of the best critical thinking done and completed where three lives were saved during hysteria.
my day is never ruined yet ... I’m Happy, one of the Seven Dwarfs ...
Also, the military needs to start gaming a war plan against Russia and China because they are likely to move in 2016 or 2017, when we are at our weakest point.