Honestly, this is one problem with ex-military in civilian (non-intel) jobs: their knee jerk assumption is no one else needs to know. Over classification culture bleeding into what should be public diplomacy.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1228497862251642880 …
Why bother building public support for your policy when you can just try to conduct it perpetually in secret? That's what Clausewitz says, right - will doesn't matter, do everything behind closed doors?