That is undoubtedly one component especially when analysts and the military are overestimating communist ability.
But when the media and the Left does it, they are doing it more out of a need to knock this country down and disparage the military and our way of life.
The Soviet Superman myth is their embrace of Communism as the best thing since sliced bread.
To them, the myth of the Soviet Superman is the scientific and military equivalent to their embrace of Woodstock as the height of social goodness.
Ideology over economics.