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Originally Posted by Bluesman
If all wars and battles were about seizing and holding terrain, you'd be correct.
But not all wars and battles are about that (especially now), so your blanket statement is incorrect.
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I tend to agree that there have been a few battles that were not about holding terrain. Pearl Harbor from the Japanese point of view, Coral Sea from ours, the North Atlantic from both German and Allied perspectives, Hanoi and Haiphong from ours. But, wars? I have yet to see a war that was not about seizing and holding terrain, or keeping someone from seizing that terrain.