That's not exactly what I mean, [ Matt protests, frowning. ] Though ... that might be some of where I got confused. We are two very different groups of people.

[ He takes another sip of coffee as he tries to marshal his thoughts. ]

I don't mean they have to bring up our overarching goal every time they say anything. It's more like, I have no sense of the architecture of all this. What are the signs when we're getting closer? If it's just more death, why aren't we going out and killing as many people as we can? The connective tissue between the action and the goal is what I can't really see right now.