It’s one thing to say that we’re deploying troops to an area. It’s quite another to say that the planes are taking off right now and bombs should be dropping in 2 hours. I don’t understand why you can’t see the difference.
Both an announcement that you are deploying troops to an area and that you are sending out planes to an unspecified target have some amount of hypothetical risk.
No, they don't. The houthies know that they are targets. If they get 2 hours notice that jets are coming their way, they they have time to prepare a welcome.
However, the Secretary isn't a random officer spilling secrets. They have access to classified intel and a team of advisors on the response capabilities of the enemy, and they are trusted to judge what to share and when. If they do say something like, "Planes are taking off now" in an unclassified medium, it's not an accident. It is because they've decided the benefit of disclosure to the audience outweighs the risk.
Tom, did you miss the part where they didn't realize that an unauthorized journalist was included in the chat? They weren't declassifying information for public release. They were discussing an ongoing military air strike against an enemy that has air defenses on personal devices that may or may not have been hacked by our adversaries. Top government and military personnel have secure government issued devices for a reason.
Maybe this will explain the situation more clearly:
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