This is a military campaign. Battles and action against the enemy take time and must be planned. The enemy also has plans that we might know about or we might not know about. Think "The Battle of Midway" or "The Guadalcanal Campaign".
One took only a month of planning on our part and was over a week after the battle started, and the other was a long drawn out slug fest the took over 6 months to win.
Hold on for a long drawn slug fest with heavy losses on both sides by the time it's over.
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