Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Has anyone read the millions of words being produced each day analysing what is going on from everyone from the Prime Minister to people on here?
It's a different world today from 30-40 years ago. The problem isn't shortage of information - it's information overload. And honestly cynic - do you REALLY believe the Russians are basing their coverage on Social media - maybe they aren't getting any messages from their own guys in the front line I guess.
Think that even understates the problem, there is so much data getting thrown around that filtering out any useful bits is a massive problem, one that is probably not worth the effort needed to achieve results.
Also note that the social media are frequently used to disseminate misleading information, which further complicates the task.
Frankly, looking back on the record of efforts to keep military secrets, the actual performance seems very unimpressive, from the days of the A bomb, where an undiscovered source gave the Soviets full details of the Hanford reactors that produced the plutonium for Nagasaki to the spy satellites or the US Navy anti sub efforts, things always were leaked. That suggests that secrecy is theater in most cases and probably not worth the cost.