"Number of bombs dropped" sounds a lot like "lines of code written", counting resources expended rather than goals achieved. I will write a 2-line function in 100 lines, if that means my boss thinks I'm 50x more productive.

It’s absolutely wild to me that the most resounding success in U.S. military history, Desert Storm so thoroughly showcased how to conduct a military operation to achieve desired strategic outcomes and yet we are seemingly determined to learn nothing from it.

Dude, we got an operational update from someone heavily involved in the planning… It was fucking grim. The planner barely hid their disdain for all levels of leadership directing this…all the way up.

Someone should write a book about it

I still need to read your book, but I suspect if we stuck with “grand tactics” as a name for that scale we’d be in a lot less trouble.