Brother, all I can say is welcome to the last three years of the Small Wars Council. Check any ego at the door, and let's get to the business of building bridges, crossing capability gaps, and working through this mess.

And to be clear, I do give both the Army and Marines credit for trying "to get it", and not living at the end of kinetics forever. It is an amalgamation of factors for sure, which we did screw up often. We admit mistakes all the time, just maybe not at the doorstep of academia.

You've got a twenty-pound head, so let's stay in the fight and lick this together.