"Guidance" in the form of, "This is how you can save face without escalating the situation. We need some target practice, so fly your drone along this prescribed flight path we'll shoot 'em down, and you save us the cost of target drones, and we'll call it even. But if any civilians die, the next strike won't be on another general, it will be on their bosses."
So, yea, they were given some "guidance".
