Just a note for anyone maybe stumbling by because I hear a lot of people complain whenever I get on a server, the reason (I think) that the objectives are far away from each other is so that air defenses don't lock and shoot all the time.
If you have too many SAMs in a smaller radius you risk not being able to move around the map in a way that's fluid. As it is right now you can approach an objective from multiple directions using the terrain to hide, and that is cool and fun.
Having to dodge missiles constantly will no be fun.

Played the Desert mission today with my Battalion. It was great! The only thing we were missing was a few FARPs or FOBs so we didn't have to travel quite so far after our weapons were spent. Otherwise, we had a lot of fun!