Military Ridicule as Secrecy Strategy

Government agencies may intentionally use ridicule, denials, and selective disclosure as an institutional tactic to manage anomalous phenomena and limit public scrutiny without formal classification. That mixed strategy—public dismissal plus private containment—can persist for decades and produces both information suppression and fertile ground for conspiracy. — If true, this reframing makes ridicule a deliberate policy tool with implications for oversight, press access, presidential awareness, and the democratic control of national‑security institutions.