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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
i think rekna touched on a very crucial point...
it used to be (from antiquity to the middle ages) that the definition of a victory was pretty clear-cut. you could tell who won very easily... the winners would be carting the losers stuff back home and the losers would have their leader's head posted on a pole outside their city.
perhaps because the stakes are exponentially much higher, today there are immeasurably more factors and considerations that are taken into account. can a major war be winnable at all? i don't buy the idea that everyone loses in every war, but the situation certainly appears to be more complex than it has in the past.
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Of course it can be winnable, but today you have talking heads who have nothing better to do then make it seem like you are losing.
Really today the stakes are less high, at least for the losers. Just think how CNN would have handled Rome vrs Hannibal had they been there to cover it.