it probably was, but no plan survives 1st contact with the enemy
But don’t you get it?
That’s the damn problem! It was the same damn problem with Iraq.
This isn’t about military strategy and tactical adjustments. There’s not a nation on the planet the US military couldn’t beat - and excepting *maybe* China, squash to oblivion.
This is NOT a “simple” matter of “Welp, yeesh - turns out, we can’t take Caen or Cherbourg or etc per our plans so we have to adjust *military* strategies”.
There’s no Montgomery to (properly) blame, adjust, and plan around.
The problem is the lack of realistic thinking about the what, the why, and the how.
I would assume most people here are not up for a decades long occupation and generation long nation building exercise.
I’m not.
So.... NOW WHAT?