And yet they outsmarted the “greatest intelligence agency on Earth”.
Does not compute.
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.