How can anyone have a plan before they know anything about their target's powers? You first attack in order to see how the enemy reacts then you form counter-attacks to that attack. You don't just sit and wait.
No he didn't know Madara could absorb ninjutsu. Madara doesn't have the Rinnegan. Sasuke logically deduced he couldn't absorb. Either that or he was confirming whether Madara could absorb it. This is good intel to have for future attacks.
the sword part; I get your point. It was risky though I would argue not stupid. Sasuke say attacking from a safe distance with ninjutsu wouldn't work. Thus, he used physical attacks to see if those would work. The smarter move would be hit-and-run slashes to see if physical attacks work. Thus, you don't get caught up in a battle where the powerful enemy could use their power to their advantage. Then again. Madara was blind. Sasuke assumed he couldn't sense him. This turned out to be a bad assumption.
the ones I mentioned: no they were tactically stupid, especially the Alamo. Ask any professional historian; the Alamo offered zero tactical advantage. The only way the Texans could win was in the field with their superior rifles. Do your research. In their memory history, Americans made the Alamo to be awesome. Thus, the heroes became badass. Some historians would argue that the 300 Spartans brought time for the Greek army to escape. That's the only defense I've seen of that tactical mistake.
my point is that they lost but are badass. With Sasuke; he lost but was badass. He got intel. ninjutsu doesn't work, so no one else was to risk that. physical attacks work if you're fast enough. That's awesome intel.
1- You plan on how you're atacking. The fact that you don't know your enemy is another factor that shows that you should fight with caution,as you don't know what the enemy can do, and if you let your guard down, you and your allies might die.
It's like I said. You should atack to gather intel, but atack with caution. Going all out without caution against an enemey that you know nothing about or against a powerful being is very dangerous, and it's stupid to be done. That's what sasuke did.
2- That's the thing. If sasuke knew madara could absorve ninjutsu and didn't notice the rinnegan dissapearing, it was very stupid, as it would be waste of chakra. However, if he noticed it, then it was smart.
Indeed. He should've made a quick atack and escaped jsut as quickly. The risk of fighting madara like that was too high, he should've considered that. Sasuke barely got an intel, as everybody knows what senjutsu can do. The only thing he got is that ninjutsu might work, but that was kind of obvious, considering the loss of the rinnegan.
3- I was actually speaking of the manga fights, as I don't know about american history.
And for me, being smart is way more badass then doing something with your fists without thinking a bit about the consequences of your actions.
If you think about it, it was 300 humans that died. They risked that war by not thinking about smart tatics of atack. They put the lives of their companions at risk, no, they sacrificed all those lives. That's not badass, if you think about the consequences and the lack of intelligence.
An action isn't isolated. It has consequences, it has purpose, it has results. You can't just look at the badassness of the action and disconsider all of these.