The insurgents, he said, are showing "some level of regional command-and-control" that indicates planning beyond individual small groups striking only at targets of opportunity.
It is possible, the officials said, that at some level of the chain of command a soldier could receive an administrative reprimand, but those matters are held privately within the unit or command.
Under the new arrangement, Turkey would lead the force while a German colonel would assume the second level of command.
That would be strong for an action-drama, but it seems optimistic: it is unlikely Everest will have the same level of command on regular-sized screens.
"The level of command and control, and the level of sophistication of the IDF, is showing that there is some type of expertise being employed," said one American officer, using the acronym for indirect fire, the term the military uses for mortar, artillery and rocket attacks.
It exposed the poor level of command and staff - which has been swept away - and a poor performance at strategic level and what the Americans would characterise as an institutional lack of aggression and forward leaning and a capacity for muddled thinking.
Asked if anyone from his unit went to the aid of the fatally injured protester, YB said: "No, we weren't allowed to leave [the vehicle]." Asked why he didn't call a military ambulance over his radio, he said: "That's not my level of command".
But when you put them all together in one sentence and say this was well known at every level of command, it impugns, it seems to me, everyone who fought over there and it gives the impression that everyone who fought over there was a war criminal and that's just not true".
Why couldn't a speaker have that same level of command and influence on stage?
At such a senior level of command, military and political issues tended to merge.
