When a doctor says you have a "malignant neoplasm on the trachea", he is being precise, not obfuscatory. When technical language confounds us, our problem is ignorance; we have come to a place where we do not yet know the names, and time and study and attention will make things clear to us. When obfuscatory language deceives us, we have come to place where the doors have been closed in our faces. That is the difference. And that the doors have been closed out of habit or fear, and not out of malice, does not help us at all.
Yes, exactly. So now the question can be brought back to whether "do not reflect the current on-ground realities" is jargon or technical language, or not. I can easily imagine it is, for higher-level military commanders. Just like 'synergy' is a word that means something to professional managers in bigger organizations and consultancy. I know it's a word that is often derided by technical people for being meaningless management mumbo jumbo, but that's just a brash generalization coming from ignorance of the field of management.
Anyway my objection against the original comment was precisely this; the OP made a statement on the intent of who said those words based on (from what I read between the lines of the post) prejudices and his/her own ignorance.
