You don’t win by fighting without killing.”
That’s not completely true.You win a war by taking ground away from the enemy until he has nowhere else to go.
I can see why people are confused by this winning strategy, because after WW2 our govt. decided on a new strategy, send a bunch of our guys out to secure an area,lose a lot of our guys, secure the objective and then pull out and let the enemy have it back, so we could come back another day and do it all over again.
While I agree with your statement on real estate, you also have to destroy the other guy’s will to win and confidence in that will.
The people around 0bama express decidedly different views on what their will for the US and our military is. It appears that the policies of this administration understand only political victory, to which end anything and anyone can be sacrificed, including the United States of America itself.