I voted for Carter twice, because (1) Ford was a dolt and (2) Reagan was an asshole. I imagine that Ford would have done the same crap to savage Afghanistan, because this is the sort of CRAP that US presidents since Eisenhower engage in. I was not consulted, what happens was not my fault in any way.
Knowing arcane silly military jargon is of no use to me. I can look up anything I do not know any time I feel the urge. WWII was probably a useful war, the Cold War was at least as much the fault of US poor leadership as it was Soviet poor leadership.
In all the time I have been reading history, newsmagazines and such, I recall not hearing or reading even one of your silly phrases. One can understand what is going on without them. I observe that although you seem to have known zilch about Brzenzski's enlisting the Saudis in a religious war against the Soviets, I heard about it about a year after it was apparently planned.
I observe that pretty much all the career military people I have known are misinformed and fanatical to the point of paranoia, and running around blathering about how the military is huge and mean but needs to be even bigger and meaner. I am not impressed.