If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.
General Douglas MacArthur had proposed extending the Korean War into China.
I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.
There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
Two birdies and a lot of bogeys doesn't really help. I say if you're going to do it, do it properly and be dreadful on all fronts.