There may well be more bad information out there than there has ever been before, but, offhand, I can't think of a war where there has been more information (good and bad) out there, and that bothers me very much. When too much information goes out, people die unnecessarily.

A battle plan being made up on the fly can look as if it is being artfully concealed. This I think is a big part of the picture here; the civilians at the Pentagon expected big things out of the initial air strike and the psych warfare gambits, and now that these haven't panned out the generals are doing a lot of improvising. This doesn't mean they haven't prepared for many contingencies, only that the overall strategy of how to win this war is being adjusted on the go, a little each day.

I don't think the generals are improvising at all. I think the battle plan is pretty clear. One, send the Third ID up to make contact with the Republican Guard around Baghdad and fix those divisions in place. This meant that the southern cities would be initially by-passed. The British Marines with their slower Challenger tanks would secure the southern cone of Iraq up to Basra and mop up any resistance in this area.

Western Iraq has been almost totally ignored. Spec Ops has taken the huge airfields in the Western Desert. That was 4 or 5 days ago. Are they sitting around smoking cigarettes in the meantime? I don't think so. They could be flying in forces now, which would then be available to attack Baghdad or Tikrit from the west and north.

The Northern Front is heating up. Spec Ops is working with Kurdish Forces, who are under American command. Bombing is softening up the Iraqi forces up there. This is the Northern Alliance option. Mosul and Kirkuk are not far from their lines, along with the oil fields. These forces could then sweep down into Tikrit and the north of Baghdad.

The big picture is pretty clear, I don't understand the problem.