Comment by lazide

Secrecy enables several things, including:

- abuse

- incompetence

- getting away with breaking rules and laws

Sometimes, those are desirable or necessary for national security/pragmatic reasons.

For instance, good luck running an effective covert operation without being abusive to someone or breaking rules and laws somewhere!

Usually (80/20 rule) it’s just used to be shitty and make a mess, or be incompetent while pretending to be hot shit.

In a real war, these things usually get sorted out quickly because the results matter (existentially).

Less so when no one can figure out who the actual enemy is, or what we’re even fighting (if anything).