The good colonel was so clueless to his own AD needs he assumed his non-MLU based F-16s would be enough against the strike corps he was facing which had both BVR cover and Mig-27s armed with the SFU.Our AD has always been fighter based with GBAD being supplementary. Not sure what the point you are making is.
Point being - when the stupid and lazy or stupid and hardworking category is the one taking command and not the ones who know their jobs - shit happens. And before anyone goes on another defensive stint - the fellow was smiled upon by people who actually wrote the new doctrine taking place when the new AD software was being developed in my workplace