Which, as Nynaeve pointed out, was a failure. And even if they are well-prepared, it does not change the fact that the Seanchan have 1,000 years of battle-testing their precautions and procedures and were seen to adapt very rapidly indeed to confronting a channeling foe. The rebels' precautions in their camp are irrelevant when considering what would happen if Aes Sedai dropped into a fight with the Seanchan.

Um, your point? Mine is, these were good choices, being non-Aes Sedai.

I forget nothing. As I pointed out in a post a while back, her actions can be taken at more or less face value, since she was always loyal to the Light and working in their interests. In a forest in the middle of nowhere, with no Black Ajah superiors about, there is no reason to assume her unwillingly assumed role as a Black sister is governing her actions. And you are wrong about the prohibition against attacking the Forsaken. Liandrin was perfectly able to strike at Moghedian and her Black faction was open to taking on a Forsaken with their balefire rod. There is no such prohibition that actually impedes them, besides fear of retribution, which was not Verin's concern. She actually says the reverse to Egwene, that a Black sister CAN get away with betraying one of the Chosen.

Except there is no such thing. What if it was a man channeling saidin from hiding? He would still have been the first one to sense it! Even Beldeine would have been a better choice, given that she was at least suspicious of Aran'gar's presence! I mean, REALLY. What IS Daigian's problem? ANYONE showing up near Shadar Logoth should be a reason for suspicion! Why wasn't Daigian ready as soon as she saw a human being? How much advance warning was she expecting of attack? What evidence do you offer of Eben's immaturity, when just about every other word about him in the series talks about his being older than his years, and aged by his experiences. He is the only one in that entire group who has faced one of the Forsaken in combat, Flinn & Narishma being with comatose Rand while Hopwil, Morr & Adley were fighting Sammael.

Oh, THAT'S a reason for Cadsuane's group to trust her? Earlier in that same book, Shalon observes that Cadsuane's faction scorns the Dragonsworn sisters for just that reason (though she does not know what it is)! It doesn't matter what she could or could not know. SHE was given a job and she ditched it, for absolutely no good reason, and against her normal inclinations towards letting people do stuff with her newest warder.

Well enough, but the problem is the attitudes underlying the plan. She put HER people in charge and they either failed or passed the buck to people with the stones to do the job. In each of the circles from which we get a PoV, we see the most unrestrained combat channeler scorned or relegated to a lesser position. Shalon, Narishma & Hopwil were the best choices for leading a circle in battle, having no restrictions on using the Power in battle, as well as specific training (and definite experience) in combat, yet Verin scorns Shalon for not being a sister, and Daigian refrains from making full use of her resources and doesn't listen enough to Beldeine. Narishma, of course, is constrained by Callandor's limitations. As for the "heat of combat" do you think that the rest of the battles to come will not be so "hot"? Sure, it's tough to make decisions under those conditions, but they have to be made, and we have seen in the crunch that Aes Sedai in general, and academic sisters in particular fail. Military groups train and drill their people so they have something to help them through those difficult combat decisions.

"Of all his five years schooling, they don't remember much
Except the not-retreating, the step and keeping touch.
It looks like training wasted when they duck & skip & hop,
But if he hadn't learned 'em, they'd be all about the shop." -Rudyard Kipling "The 'eathen"

The Asha'man, and maybe the Green Ajah, have had the "schooling." Many of them have been in combat before, especially against the Seanchan, and it will not be a mystery or a shock to them. BTW, note that even the experience gained at the Cleansing is useless for combat leadership, since all the circle leaders but Flinn are now dead.