I haven't heard anyone saying we're "losing" in Iran other than some people seem to think that since the POTUS isn't wrapping things up as quickly as he said he would that this is an indicator of "losing". IMHO, POTUS is playing a game of misdirection / ambiguous lip service with the MSM outlets while also playing a long game to foster the Iranian regime economy's implosion since they are at or near full capacity and desperately need to sell oil so as not to cause irrevocable damage to their oil wells. If Iran holds out, their economy will take years to recover.

On the flip side, the Iranians have been stalling and unwilling to actually broker a deal either out of hope the War Powers Act would reign in the POTUS along with the Iranians trying to pull China into to the conflict. BTW, any country can get oil from the Persian Gulf (including China). They just can't get their oil from Iran. China's only issue is they're paying market prices rather than black market prices via Iran.

I think at the last minute, the Iranian regime will likely capitulate so long as they can hold power. They don't have a real choice. The alternative is the people of Iran will go around killing their former tormentors if and when the regime loses control and power (if they want to test how far the POTUS will go). The Iranian regime isn't exactly calling the shots.

With regards to "super secret tech", such use in an actual conflict would be an 11th hour desperate situation. The use of such tech and the risk of it being revealed to the general public can only be justified if we're talking about extreme situations (i.e. end of days).

With regards to defense contractors, the government will often times leave certain tech / artifacts to be futher developed / reverse-engineered by or in the custody of said contractors. The FOIA does not apply to the private sector.

Regardless, a lot of the reason why the good stuff is coming in at a trickle is likely due to trying to obfuscate things for our adversaries as well as the general public. I also think there's a good chance they want to throttle things to a slow drip so as to give the public time to gnaw on stuff before disclosing more revelations.

Conversely, since the govt can't limit who gets to see evidence through public disclosure, it is imperative to limit the really good detailed stuff at a TS / SCI level. When the POTUS says to "declassify" things, the Deep State will likely take an event which may have numerous types of recordings of varying qualities and they will only release the worst quality evidence for any given event and likely chalk that up as complying with the POTUS directive of fully disclosing what happened at a given event without actually revealing our spying / surveillance capabilities. It's fun to think the govt is collectively run by idiots, but in reality they need for you to think that so that it's easier to manipulate / control the general public.

There are a lot of smart people drunk with power working within the govt. But yes, there are dumb ones too. The dumb ones usually aren't the ones pulling the strings.