Remember Desert Storm. The media (unwittingly) focused a lot on the Marines that were going to be leading the assault into Kuwait. We knew everything there was to know about that Marine group, even when it sailed to make the landings on Kuwaiti beaches.
The overwhelming storming of the beaches of Kuwait never happened...instead major Army units did an end run through Iraq and Marine ground units went into Kuwait from the south. But Iraq and the world had their eyes on the beaches.
Remember when the press got hold of info. about our invading somewhere...I cannot remember where or when...but they gave it away and were waiting for us. Was it Somalia? Anybody remember?
I think I remember reading something about a handful of Navy SEALs blowing the hell out of the beach prior to the invasion and that was enough for Saddam to move two divisions(something like 30,000 troops) to meet what he thought to be the incoming amphibious assault.