Even if I had not read the Tom Clancy books, and only seen a few of the movies, I would still know that rule #1 of operational security is: Information is distributed on a need to know basis.
IF YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW, YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW!
I don't care whether you call them war plans, attack plans, operations plans, or a recipe for disaster, you don't go blabbing all over the place what you plan to do and when you plan to do it unless you are a fool. You don't start bragging to the girl you want to impress just because she has a security clearance. Just because they have the credentials to know that doesn't mean they have the need to know.
Whenever you are planning an attack or other secret mission, operational details should be limited to those that need them for the success of the operation, and then only those details that that individual or unit needs to know for the success of the operation. That's how you keep your people and operations safe. Anything else is malpractice.
And people have been killed by these attacks on the poorest country in the Middle East, and not just terrorists. On the US strike on Yemen the following Monday, the BBC writes:
Updating an earlier death toll, Houthi health ministry spokesperson Anis al-Asbahi posted on X that 53 people had been killed including "five children and two women", and that 98 people had been wounded.
So, this is serious business. So, let us be serious, the Houthi PC small group had not been assembled to consult on this operation, or make any real-time decisions about its execution. They had been assembled by Mike Waltz to watch and be entertained. They were there as dilettantes, not as government workers essential to the success of a life and death mission.
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