With regard to Michael Klare’s post there is a glaring omission. I confirmed this when, to make sure I hadn’t missed something, I did F searches on the text for terms such as “Cuba,” “Clausiwitz,” “fog of war,” ‘snafu,” etc. The unseen elephant in the room can be expressed in some phrases I frequently heard while putting in my two years fighting the Cold War from behind a desk: there always somebody who doesn’t get the word; no battle plan survives the first shot; shit happens; etc.