Then he leaks it to the enemy, ruining the plan and getting almost everyone killed.
But it's Holdo's fault. Right.
That's actually a SEPARATE issue from Holdo withholding the mission parameters. His information was leaked to a spy, and the point of a spy is you're not supposed to know they were the enemy. It's never intentional, and the story contrived it to be that way.
You could have just as easily had someone within the Resistance just outright betray Holdo as their numbers dwindle to a few dozen and reach out to the First Order in exchange for leniency, and then everyone would've gone "Oh, Holdo's info wound up in enemy hands. She should've known better. But POE'S the one who was wrong."
As an audience surrogate, Poe is our eyes and ears, and Holdo's role in the story is to demonstrate leadership qualities that would make us, the audience, want to trust and believe in her. The film does not frame this in a way that we would. It's a "gotcha!" moment in the film, but only because the story worked backwards from the misunderstanding.
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This is not how any military operation ever has worked, what are you even on about? The brass on the bridge are the people who needed to know what was going on. They knew. None of them had a problem. If Poe wanted to know so desperately, he could relay the question to his commanding officer instead of the god damn admiral, ya know, rhe chain of command, and if said CO decided Poe needed to know they would either make a command decision and inform him, or run it up to their CO for permission. That no officer above Poe felt the need to inform Poe tells you that Poe's reckless ass had no right to know.
This is a resistance. Guerrilla fighters and civilian sympathizers. At this point, the "chain of command" is a few DOZEN people. This isn't an army; it's a rag-tag group of dying survivors. I had more people in my graduating class in high school than they did Resistance fighters by the time they make it to Crait.
They're pathetically outnumbered, outgunned, outmanned. They're dying like flies. Everything is going wrong. They have no fuel, no weapons, no resources. Their leadership is already in disarray as veterans they looked up to - Ackbar, Leia, etc - are dying off and being put out of commission.
This is why a military operation at this point would focus on "rallying the troops". It's why generals give speeches to their charges to inspire and lead and get everyone on the same page, even for a strategic retreat.
Someone already mentioned, it's a "military" so pathetic that Poe got "demoted" and yet they never had anyone qualified to replacement. Nobody actually got promoted to his vacant position because they were so low on troops and didn't have time to go through proper channels for a suitable replacement.
This isn't a "by the books" operation from a well-run military power. It's a bunch of scared civies with a select few military personnel (again, down to the double-digits) at the very brink of ruin. This was less a "military operation" and more of a "plan of SURVIVAL" because their enemy was not going to take prisoners of war. They were made clear they were aiming to WIPE THEM OUT.
That is not the time to calmly tell the last few survivors - who have fought and bled and nearly died over and over for this imbalanced war - to shut up and stop being so reckless as they feel more and more backed into a corner.
