At this point in time, does this even need to be asked? It is self evident that they are blithering idiots.
You can sit there and imagine these geeky guys...sitting around and reading intelligence messages written by E-2’s or 2Lt’s...and trying to grasp what they meant by “movement”, “causalities”, or “estimates”. Then you take into consideration that the geeky guys never took any social science classes in college...and the worst threat they ever faced was a MAC hard drive that failed on a Sunday night before exams.