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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (323431)1/29/2007 8:42:00 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576129
 
Now how can you win every battle and lose a war?

You defeat the enemy in confrontations again and again, but the enemy cares more about the war than you do, and you give up an go home despite never being directly defeated in a tactical sense in any serious way).

In another sense (that doesn't apply to our efforts in Iraq) you can win a bunch of pyrrhic victories, where you take control of your objective, destroy far more of the enemy then you lose yourself, but have less resources to replaces losses then the enemy and your strength gets whittled away while there's does not. You can either then give up and go away like above, or perhaps you win every battle but one, the last one, where your resources are finally so low you get crushed.
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