literally only known to a few dozen people on the entire planet
i don't think you can run a modern nation state like that, not even in presidential systems like the US or Russia where executive power is nominally concentrated in one person. you can't keep that many people in the upper echelons of government (also military, intelligence, finance and industry) in the dark about what is really going on without making your nation inoperable and highly vulnerable to that one guy in charge having a bad day. so i'd say that take reeks of "secret puppet master cabal" brainworms and / or a severe case of great man theory.
Idk I think he's referring to the current status and objectives of the war on the ground, and it's probably only the top military and executive brass who review the compiled reports and make decisions on them. Add up the military and intelligence personnel who compile those reports, and I don't imagine it's much more than 60 people per side who have the most detailed (but important) bits of info
i don't think you can run a modern nation state like that, not even in presidential systems like the US or Russia where executive power is nominally concentrated in one person. you can't keep that many people in the upper echelons of government (also military, intelligence, finance and industry) in the dark about what is really going on without making your nation inoperable and highly vulnerable to that one guy in charge having a bad day. so i'd say that take reeks of "secret puppet master cabal" brainworms and / or a severe case of great man theory.
Idk I think he's referring to the current status and objectives of the war on the ground, and it's probably only the top military and executive brass who review the compiled reports and make decisions on them. Add up the military and intelligence personnel who compile those reports, and I don't imagine it's much more than 60 people per side who have the most detailed (but important) bits of info
A few dozen with all the facts and thousands with the piece they need to play their part.
It's how corporations work under capitalism. Division of intellectual and physical labor at work