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Pyrrhus wins battles at a cost that shows the fragility of specialized Greek military forces.
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Pyrrhic victory
Pyrrhus wins battles at a cost that shows the fragility of specialized Greek military forces.
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Defined as a victory whose costs are so high that the winner might as well have lost.
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"Battle after battle. Pyrrhus is defeating the Romans. And then he finally says, you know what? If I win one more battle, I'm going..."
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"...no more soldiers left. Okay? And this is where the phrase Pyrrhic victory comes from. Right? You can win, but the costs of victory..."
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"...backfiring. The only way out is for Donald Trump to declare victory while conceding defeat. Stephen Moore. I mean, I can't imagine a scenario..."
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"...that they will hang together in this way until they achieve victory. Yeah, Professor Zhang, what do you think? Same question. Alex, have you..."
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"...continue until the collapse of the Western empire or their, their victory, but they're on a, you know, they're on a decline. And I..."
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"...Donald Forrest went in and kidnapped Maduro. It was a tremendous victory for America. So on the first day, the Israelis and Americans attacked..."
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"...Trump even said what he wants? He said he wanted complete victory or complete surrender. Surrender. But what does that, what does that mean?"
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"...– the last two years of my presidency look like a victory. And I exit – I'm 82 years old as a victor, right?..."
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"...the world and the Messiah will come and lead them to victory. So, um, Israel has descended into this fanatical religion. Yeah. It's a..."
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"...view the physical destruction of their own cities as a spiritual victory? Okay. It's not that hard to rebuild an economy in a city...."
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"...capacity to build a nuclear weapon and you can declare a victory, okay? All right. So what's the evidence for this? Well, on March..."
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"...who fell in battle to Tarnas. And Tarnas, to celebrate his victory over Pallas, stole the sword belt of Pallas, okay? So, and Aeneas..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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