The gap is documented. So is the pattern.

When a plan breaks, the failure is rarely that no one could have known — the indicators are usually already in the system, on a screen, in a feed. What's missing is anything that assembles them into the recognition that a decision is required, reconciles it against the commander's intent, and routes it to the echelon that can act, in time. That gap has been documented across combat, disaster response, and coalition defense — and across every technology era. Here is the case, and what it takes to close it.