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Obviously you have not served in the military, or know of how information travels in the military and how by nature people talk.
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Actually I AM ex-Navy. And I'm very surprised that you'd see it was acceptable to publish the locations of the Naval ships planned port visits to the public. After the Cole incident, which was a result of loss of operational security, I'm astonished that you'd seek to allow further security leakage.
Yes, the enemy knows a lot of what we do. Leaks happen, people talk, they read messages that arent properly encoded, things happen. But what we dont need to do is make it easy for them.
I never assumed we're fighting a dumb and disorganized enemy. While it doesnt take much intelligence to take a bomb, put a detonator on it, and place it on a major roadway and wait for the enemy to drive by. It doesnt take much intelligence to pack a lot of explosives into a car and drive it into a marketplace. It takes logistical skills to keep the cars and explosives train going, and technical skills to make the bombs which we can not ignore. Yes they undoubtably have spies inside their new police force and almost certainly inside the government, but as far as the ability to decode our secret naval codes and such I seriously doubt. My point is that just giving that information out is ludicris.