I think "inept" is a bit uncharitable. We have no idea what their success and failure rates are. By their very nature, they take on the trickiest assignments,

I think "inept" is a bit uncharitable. We have no idea what their success and failure rates are. By their very nature, they take on the trickiest assignments, the ones that are most likely to fail in weird, unexpected ways. > There is a long list of these special operations in the book... And I'm sure there's a list orders of magnitude longer that we'll never hear about, and there's no way to judge if the ops in his book are representative of the whole.