limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm weren't self-evident at the time i can tell you because the american military, the chiefs of staff on the executive committee that discussed this an and took the decisions, were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention  and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of mcarthur's, that is turn the, the crisis into er a different kind of crisis, turn it in fact into a war.