Slightly obtuse question, hopefully someone positionally knowledgeable can help.
In the Bayonet Caro-Kann (the one with the g4 thrust), if Black plays ...Bb4, he may try to change the game into a French structure. There is an alternate way of playing, too slow, where Black ends up targeting against the pawn on h4. So in this other game, with the Bishop on b4, I decided that Bd2 as a move wasted time, simply on the basis that he could play Be7, and prevent h4.
So the question is, was this a piece of faulty thinking given that Black's subsequent Be7 would lose a tempo? Or is it the only correct plan to be playing and aiming to play h4 always with the g4 idea (barring obvious reasons not to)?
Sorry to be so confusing
