from my research, ive come up with only one way a war is lost every time. what are your thoughts.

Why are all chickenhawk Republicants illiterate?

Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war!

That's easy to answer ... just look at recent history .... go to war in uniform and harboring the ideals of a "gentlemen's war" (the Geneva Conventions) against an enemy who is in civvies firing at you from behind their women and children. We did it in Viet Nam and are doing so now in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Political Correctness defined :
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

and when we cant back up patrols with instant umbrella fire, we take casualties we are not prepared for. one is to many. drones are great, if they can deliver instant retalitory payback. arty rules. a 175 flichet round does wonders to an enemy concidering a mass attack.

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And the British did it in 1776: you hit that nail on the head "Gummer": however, being a "police force amidst eternally fighting tribes & armies" is also a bad way to conduct a war. ...pjwky