America didn't lose the Iraq War to Saddam, it lost to disparate groups of Islamic jihadis who read some Mao.
Losing a war is not body counts, it's a military withdrawal after a failure to achieve objectives. It doesn't mean there are winners.
America went into Afghanistan to destroy Al-qaeda and remove the Taliban from power. At the end of the war, the Taliban were back in power and global jihadism is even stronger and more pervasive than before. That is losing a war.
Pax Americana shows that big militarized states like the US and Russia (before that USSR) do not wield the operational war power they imagine. They lose every war they start (which, again, is not to say there is a triumphant winner).
Losing a war is not body counts, it's a military withdrawal after a failure to achieve objectives. It doesn't mean there are winners.
America went into Afghanistan to destroy Al-qaeda and remove the Taliban from power. At the end of the war, the Taliban were back in power and global jihadism is even stronger and more pervasive than before. That is losing a war.
Pax Americana shows that big militarized states like the US and Russia (before that USSR) do not wield the operational war power they imagine. They lose every war they start (which, again, is not to say there is a triumphant winner).