War Strategy: Why Early Conflict Risk is Higher

is always a little bit higher Why It's because everyone involved in the operation is settling in trying to understand what the different pieces are understanding how the units subordinate units to the flanks partner and coalition units in this case the Kuwaitis how they operate what frequencies do they use on the radio et cetera et cetera And we've seen this in other conflicts as well The friendly fire incidents often are a little bit higher in the early days before everyone sort of works out what their roles are In Central Command in Tampa and in their overseas headquarters right now I think they are probably primarily focused on servicing targets So we have from the president sort of the objective list right Destroy the Iranian missile capability destroy the Iranian missile production capability sink the Iranian Navy et cetera So they are now looking at every target that they have so far struck or in the military we often say serviced looking at all the targets that they've serviced assessing the damage that's been done to those targets determining whether or not those targets need to be reattacked or determining if they can move on to the next target on the list Kuwait Downed US Jets: