The answer is through a combination of political expediency, inept tactics and fumbled diplomacy.
The loss was Rousey's first knockout defeat in the UFC, and McGregor added that he weight on her shoulders outside the Octagon showed through her inept tactics against Holm, who showed her dominant boxing skills to rock Rousey before delivering a brutal roundhouse kick to end the fight.
Still, if it was an anticompetitive tactic, it seemed curiously inept.
Some democrats blame Republicans for the legislative delay, believing stall tactics make the Obama administration look inept in the run up to the November election.
All the indications are that this was an inept but ambitious terrorist plot, driven from abroad, which tried to shift the tactics yet again - car bombings in London for maximum publicity and then elsewhere for general anxiety - and catch the police cold.
On the other hand, the Parthians were inept at besieging; their cavalry armies were more suited to the hit-and-run tactics that destroyed Antony's siege train in 36 BC.
His conclusions are stark, fact-based and strongly argued: The U.S. Army is often led by generals who are masterful at combat tactics, at converging battalions on an agreed-upon enemy target, but woefully inept at recognizing changes in the battlefield, like the emergence of an insurgency in Iraq or the reemergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
"Instead of confronting them and saying, 'You're not allowed to investigate,' the government tactic has been to discredit them here, saying that these are inventions, that it's inept, that it doesn't work,'" said Ilán Semo, political historian at the Iberoamerican University.
But politically inept, no.
"Incredibly inept," says one.
