The Secret Winners of the Iran War

In theory, winning a war should be easy. Your military needs to be either so overwhelmingly strong that your opponent gives up or lucky enough to string together a quick succession of victories that leaves your opponent no choice but to throw in the towel.

Losing a war should be even easier, though what you've got to do is sit, wait and allow your opponent to steamroll over you.

But again, this is just theory. Very few militaries have the overwhelming strength or the kind of luck that wins wars quickly. And even when they do, very few nations are going to sit still and wait to be destroyed.