At the Washita, his tactical planning was competent.

He divided his force for a coordinated four-direction approach to the camp, used the terrain to conceal his approach, and struck at dawn with a coordinated assault from multiple directions.

As a purely tactical matter, the attack was well-executed.

The moral dimension of that tactical competence is where the assessment becomes more complex.

He was attacking a camp that was, by any reasonable standard, not the source of the raids he was supposedly punishing.

He was attacking at dawn, when the camp was sleeping, in a manner that maximized casualties among civilians — the women and children who were always the majority of a winter camp.