Military strategists will tell you there are three aspects to winning a war.
1. Goals - what you want to achieve
2. Strategies - How you plan on achieving your goals
3. Tactics - How you execute your strategies
Sonny's main problem is that he is totally missing #2. (His goals also aren't too well thought-out.) But without strategies, you really can't hope to achieve your goals.
Yes, and you have to be dispassionate when setting and executing these goals, something Sonny was not.
