I think you just defined the entire war completely. Except it would not be CIC it would be TOC. But yes, chaos and ill defined missions I would agree with.
Once again we have to come to terms about who we are dealing with. All wars including Viet Nam, we did carpet bombing and S&D missions. We used incendiaries or what ever we had to kill the enemy.
The current mission orders are to ‘make friends’ with them. Bring them over to our side with niceness and money.
Of course this a big joke to the Arabs who laugh it up every time they get money or supplies from us.
The only ones supporting this crap are the lovey dovey hippies in Washington.
Hey, guys! I’m not that up on acronyms, so would you please spell them out - sure would make it easier to understand what you’re talking about. Thanks much.