Poor back peddling. Well you know since Bones has his charisma and allure to ask the nation rulers to join him in Spatr War command thousands of miles away so they can have more face to face interaction and superior coordination in war and free 40,000 tech aid packages in recruitment drives, one has to take all the precautions against that charisma. They could use the magic and charisma to bring back old friends who we all thought had gone missing. So with all the superior coordination in place, one must take the precautions.
All in all, 0 soldiers and 0 tanks is a v. optimum strategy in the current scenario, perhaps our critiques could comment on how optimal the strategy of spying away sub 2k infra used by their other freinds is.