You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.