"The guys on the ground are reporting en masse that our tactical insignia, i.e. "Z" and "V", had been applied to the enemy's equipment, causing confusion in the first hours of combat as the front collapsed.
If this is true, it means that the enemy has an American network-centric battle management system, where all units on the battlefield are grid-linked and marked on computers, even at company level, let alone battalion-regiment level.
Thus, even a company sergeant in a Humvee, BMP or T-64 can see on the screen where his own units are and where the others are, and he doesn't care what marks are on the armor. If this is so it is very bad, as it is a qualitatively new level of troops control. And our retreat is a consequence of losing the equation."