History has tended to measure war\'s winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning.
Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Grea.
But these legendary battles may or may not Have determined the final outcome of the Wars in which they were fought.
History has tended to measure war\'s winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning