As the saying goes, soldiers, tricksters also. No matter which war era it is, the deployment of troops and the offensive and defensive lines of the other side should be top secret. Once the enemy has this vital information, the enemy will be in a very passive situation. In the history of world wars, there was such a senior US general who died a great death, and on the eve of the great war, his strategic ideas and troop arrangements were published in the newspaper!
The stupid commander was MacArthur, who was touted by the Americans, and he was also the commander of the U.S. military in the Korean War.
During the Korean War, the United Nations troops who landed at Inchon were on the verge of reaching the Yalu River. Under these circumstances, the volunteer army entered the DPRK, took it by surprise, and caught the UnIs led by the US military by surprise. When the volunteers achieved a great victory, they chose to take the initiative to retreat and hide.
This operation made the U.S. military mistakenly think that the volunteers were instigated, fearing that the American troops would bomb fiercely in the air, and the volunteers may have withdrawn from the Korean battlefield. Under the influence of this brain circuit, U.S. Military Commander MacArthur formulated a "Western Birthday Offensive" plan for a full-scale attack on the Yalu River before Christmas 1950.
The U.S. army general, who was good at showmanship, seemed full of confidence, and even a little fluttered, did not pay attention to the volunteer army at all, and issued harsh words to occupy all of Korea before the Western Birthday Festival.
If harsh words are just a routine before the big war, then his next operation is a bit strange. Overconfident, MacArthur published an announcement in the newspaper.
In the proclamation, MacArthur triumphantly stated that the compressed encirclement of the Volunteers fighting there by unannounced forces in North Korea had been completed. Next, the coalition right wing, with the support of the navy and air force, split the volunteer army in the northern region in two. After that, the western section of the pincer offensive will launch a general offensive... Absolute secrets such as offensive plans, tactics, offensive lines and objectives of the various units, and even offensive methods were made public to the whole world like lesson plans.
After learning this instruction-like offensive road map, the volunteer army seemed to open the nine-day perspective, and completed the interspersed encirclement on both flanks of the United Nations army with great ease, and the results achieved were completely beyond the previous expectations.
With MacArthur's help, the Volunteers inflicted heavy losses on the main forces of the 2nd, 7th, 25th, 1st Cavalry Division, and 1st Marine Division in the Second Campaign, annihilating most of the South Korean 7th and 8th Divisions and the Turkish Brigade. The U.N. lost a total of 36,000 troops, including 24,000 U.S. casualties.