White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Opening moves especially in an operation of such scale are generally going to be chaotic .

Of course. All war is the struggle to impose the order of plans upon the chaos of battle -- and as Clausewitz (or was it Moltke the Elder) pointed out -- "No plan survives the first contact with the enemy."

Or as Mike Tyson put it, 'Everyone has a plan til you get punched in the face.'

Boru