Just a moment...

"Victory or defeat in war hence cannot rely on objective criteria like respective casualties, territory occupied or lost, war-fighting capability and infrastructure destroyed of the adversary or vice versa or prisoners captured by either side. It can be stated that winning tactically and even operationally is more straightforward and can be militarily quantifiable; strategic victory is more complicated. A battlefield victory hence may not lead to a long-time effect politically, and even militarily. "