The ones with substandard IQ’s are just bodies. They are not the ones doing the strategizing.
Also, the issue of asymmetrical warfare guarantees the occasional failing, because you have to try and figure out where they might attack when they are probing from a thousand points at all times.
There is no army that is equipped to deal with asymmetrical warfare at all times.
This wasn’t an occasional failure. Thousands of rockets and men. Months of training and planning. A complete non response for hours.
Greatest modern intelligence failure exponentially speaking.
Or, they allowed it to happen.
When one looks at the information individually, and thinks critically and not emotionally, it points to something people don’t want to admit.