Gal Giap, aged 102, is dead

[Ironside]

And desert storm 2, as you call it, happened for so many reasons that trying to claim any specific one as the cause is the height of misunderstanding. Its the definition of cluster-fuck. The lesson to be learned is not new: The only war worth waging is Total War.

I would say that a big chunk of the cluster-fuck is the lack of understanding that peacekeeping/nation building are fundamentally different from normal warfare. That part strikes me as a tack on and neglected at the critical beginning.