Yeah, I think it was purposely created to show how much/little information that can/should be exchange between several levels of the command chain. It is nothing that far fetch in real life when the boot on the ground or fly jockeys find out too late that the intel had enough of it wrong to make thing look like a world biggest cluster....
Think about it, the German initial intelligence report before there invasion of the Soviet Union had underestimated the Soviet Military size, besides underestimating the number of troops they would be able to mobilized. Lot of this hand out was to get the players steered into two directions as well as give the GM an open hand to move units where they see fit.
Like most of the game there are parts we can all agree on to disagree with. It is a game, as players depending on your real life experience you may feel some thing are total unrealistic, while other who don't have may not know what is realistic or not. It is fun at time to get into the heads of the people who had made the decisions and why or why not?
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