There are always bloody good reasons for not fighting wars. When you are engaged in fighting one, its not a brilliant idea to publicise those reasons. Some of that is to do with the morale of the of the people out there risking their lives, increasing the worry that their families are already subjected to, giving extra fire power to those who are morally opposed to the war and are undermining your efforts anyway.

One is reminded of the idiot who nearly revealed the position of the British fleet approaching the Falkland when it was sheltering in cloud cover. Of course there is censorship in wartime.

I imagine the newhound in question could have found any number of such 'scoops' if he'd been there on D Day. Just thank your lucky stars he wasn't.