I was alluding to the fact that they...don't. Have a strategy, I mean.
Half the time, the military isn't deployed with any idea as to what to do once the shooting stops.
Result: bungling on all levels, and eventually sheer fatigue leading to US forces withdrawing after razing the country down without actually winning the war.
Well, we
couldn't win the war for exactly that reason. The very first, most basic thing needed to win a war
is to have an actual goal you are trying to achieve, and we never defined one. We never had a chance to win in Afghanistan because we never actually defined what winning would
be, and all the firepower in the world won't let you achieve a goal you've never defined in the first place.
Bush and company wanted to attack Iraq and didn't actually care about Afghanistan or Osama bin Laden, so they went in there in as quick-and-dirty way as they could to get it out of the way so they could invade Iraq instead. We went in without any long term plan, and it just festered on the backburner for years and years still with no plan. The end result being that we've spent nearly 20 years treading water in Afghanistan without direction, killing people without accomplishing much of anything.