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	Pyrrhic War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pyrrhic War was a war between Pyrrhus of Epirus and Rome that lasted from 280 BC to 275 BC.
		It was an important precursor to the Punic Wars, because in establishing itself as a major military power in the wake of victory, Rome would inevitably come into conflict with another city, Carthage, a Phoenician colony based in North Africa.
		It is the source of the current expression, "pyrrhic victory", which means a great victory won at too great a cost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrhic_War (1493 words)

	Pyrrhic victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Pyrrhic victory (pronounced pirric) is a victory which is won at too great a cost for the victor.
		The phrase is a reference to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who defeated the Romans at Heraclea and Asculum in 279 BC, but suffered severe and irreplaceable casualties in the process, going on to eventually lose the Pyrrhic War.
		While it is most closely associated with a military battle, the term is used by analogy in fields such as business, politics, law or sport to describe any similar struggle which is ruinous for the victor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrhic_victory (312 words)

	Pyrrhic War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The arrival at this moment of a small Roman squadron in forbidden waters was probably excusable as a war measure in defence of Greek allies, but it was a formal breach of the treaty of 302 BC with Tarentum.
		In the theatre, in the presence of a great assembly, one of the ambassadors was grossly insulted, his toga being befouled by a clownish fellow amidst the approving plaudits of a giddy crowd.
		This was to become a pattern during the war between the Romans and Pyrrhus.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /pyrrhic-war.htm (1805 words)

	The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories
		A war is unjust, on the other hand, when a people try to impose domination on another people, or try to retain an already existing coercive rule over them" (p.
		And of course the casualties of the war, the bloodiest in our history, must be weighed in the balance against the alleged good results of it.
		Readers of The Costs of War will be struck not only by the malign influence of intellectuals in promoting war and statism, but also by the importance of particular arguments in that endeavor.
	www.mises.org /misesreview_detail.asp?control=15 (1554 words)

	Pyrrhic War - History of the Roman Empire
		The Pyrrhic forces advanced and the Roman army may have been destroyed, save for the timely intervention of a wounded elephant that caused panic among the others.
		The Roman's attempted using ox-drawn war wagons to subvert the elephants, but supporting infantry soon overwhelmed the defense and the Romans had to withdraw.
		In the end, the victory in the Pyrrhic war not only gained Rome all of Italy, but showed that the Roman ability to adapt and change was mightier than any force in the region.
	www.unrv.com /empire/pyrrhic-war.php (1882 words)

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		A Pyrrhic Inheritance By continuing to haggle over the spoils, the successor states are doing most harm to themselves by Drago Buvac October 1996 Sir Arthur Desmond Watts is as inscrutable as the Sphinx.
		During the war, the real estate-the buildings and recreation camps, and some weaponry-passed to the states where it was located, was taken away by local territorial defence forces, or was squandered.
		Such an approach to the division of the war-devastated Pyrrhic inheritance, based on a desire to see others suffer, means that all these states, by delaying their prospects of integration into world capital markets and the renewal of their regional market, are doing most harm to themselves.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/war/war_46_199610_07.txt (1375 words)

	Amazon.com: The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories: Books: John Denson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Costs Of War will be of interest to historians, political scientists, economists and sociologists, as well as the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the financial, economic, social, cultural, political, technological, and humanitarian costs of war.
		War is an engine for aggrandisement of power in the hands of state, centralisation, as well as sweeping cultural and moral changes.
		Thomas Woods put it best, "The Costs of War is easily one of the most important books to emerge from American conservatives in a generation." I whole-heartedly recommend this jewel, which is a reminder of the costs of war and a defender of the non-interventionist tradition which must be recovered.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765804875?v=glance (3864 words)

	Iraq War
		The truth about the Iraq war may be clear to John Murtha and 60 percent of the American people, but not to the three Democratic senators interested in becoming President in 2008.
		As President Bush denounces his critics and proclaims war without end in Iraq the central front in a new cold war, he fails to acknowledge that he is responsible for handing Al Qaeda a new home base.
		War hero and former NFL star Pat Tillman was not the GI Joe icon created by Pentagon spinmeisters.
	www.thenation.com /directory/iraq_war (3152 words)

	The Punic Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pyrrhic War (281-275) arose over a conflict between Rome and King Pyrrhus of Epirus, located on the eastern edge of the Adriatic sea.
		Pyrrhus actually won the war but at such great cost that he was forced to retreat (Pyrrhic victory).
		Rome finally decided to take the war directly to Carthage and led by a young general, Scipio Africanus, they defeated Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 201 BC.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /punic-wars-summary.htm (631 words)

	StreetSwing's Dance History Archives- War Type Dances - Main1
		War dances are general, and of many varieties.
		Wilder groups amuse themselves in the Pyrrhic dance of the Spacchiotes, danced in short kirtles, long boots, with a quiver of arrows and bent bow; the Klepht and Albanian dances, where a long chain of dancers is led by a coryphæeus.
		The Pyrrhic was often carried out on horseback, and, on the other hand, it might be merely indicated by Cheironomia.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3war1.htm (1484 words)

	On Power: The Independent Institute \| U. S. History \| World War II
		The geneses of the wars in Europe and Japan, and the eventual, if not inevitable, involvement of the United States, have been and will always be much debated by students of the conflict.
		Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Its Aftermath.
		Authoritative account that the German economy prior to World War II was not primarily devoted to armaments and war, while more of the economics of both Britain and France were devoted to such purposes.
	www.onpower.org /history_wwii.html (5660 words)

	Chapter 2: Cold War: The Pyrrhic Gambit, "THE SECRET TEAM", 1997
		Thus the battles, large and small, of the "war" are the local face-to-face skirmishes between small, often unnoticed, elements on both sides.
		As a result of that costly Cold War battle, again the attrition of the United States was considerable and that of the USSR was negligible.
		An old World War II airfield on a deserted island in the southwest Pacific was reactivated, and other airstrips on remote Philippine territory were prepared for bomber and transport operations.
	scribblguy.50megs.com /STchp16.htm (5882 words)

	Sun.Star Davao - Aportadera: Coalition forces: Liberators or aggressors
		AS the war machines of the Coalition Forces race to reach Baghdad, there is growing concern on their real role and purpose.
		As the war drags on to its final conflict, there is absence, scenes of enthusiastic Iraqi people welcoming the arrival of the Coalition Forces.
		But they could lose the War of Iraq, which is not popular beyond the shores of the United States and Great Britain.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2003/03/27/oped/atty..billy.aportadera.html (402 words)

	The Pyrrhic War, 280-275 BC (from ancient Rome) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		(1689–97), the third major war of Louis XIV of France, in which his expansionist plans were blocked by an alliance led by England, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the Austrian Habsburgs.
		The deeper issue underlying the war was the balance of power between the rival Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-26604 (990 words)

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		It is to keep alive the propaganda of a lost war as a comfort against the truth.
		The South was the aggressor in the Civil War (remember Fort Sumter) and in the years leading up to it by the Southern states attempt to extend slavery into the new Federal territories so as to maintain a balance in the Congress that would stimey further efforts to reform -that's right- slavery.
		This effort was often a bloody one, and the US had come close to civil war at least once or twice prior to Lincoln's election.
	www.things.org /music/al_stewart/digest_archives/v01.n584 (3447 words)

	Print Article: Rome: Total War Review - www.firingsquad.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rome: Total War obviously focuses around the city of Rome and its deeds in the Mediterranean basin.
		The Egyptians were my particular foe late in the game, being full of resources and churning out armies packed with those damnable chariot archers that prove so difficult to kill despite their defense rating of 1.
		On the one hand, they’re more effective because of their length, but the moment the battles turns into a war of maneuvers, the phalanxes can be forgotten.
	www.firingsquad.com /print_article.asp?current_section=Games&fs_article_id=1553 (2041 words)

	End of the War: NATO's Pyrrhic Victory
		The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was mandated to follow through with indictments against perpetrators of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in former Yugoslavia.
		A weakness of the Tribunal is that it does not clearly name the UN Charter as its authority.
		Given that the Tribunal successfully indicted Milosevic and others even during the progress of the war, it is unclear why those same legal processes could not have been initiated INSTEAD of the bombing campaign.
	perc.ca /PEN/1999-07-08/collins.html (1211 words)

	Asia Times
		In their view, as in the view of Israel, a resumed march towards a political solution to the Palestine question would not be possible as long as his regime continued in power and as long as the government of Iran continued with its support of the suicide bombers of the Hizbollah and the Hamas.
		But it will be a Pyrrhic victory, which will not contribute to enhanced peace and security for the US, Israel or the rest of the international community.
		They perceive the US's war on Iraq not as a war to liberate the Iraqi people from an autocratic ruler and give them the fruits of democracy, but as a continuation of a war on Islam being waged by the "crusaders" and the Jewish people.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC19Ak04.html (1397 words)

	Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Abstract: U.S. military involvements from the Civil War Between the States to the present have lead to a strengthening of centralized Federal authority and programs.
		The author argues that it is time for the United States to return to the philosophical vision of the 'Old Right': limited government and a retreat from the 'New World Order'.
		Title: The Costs of war : America's pyrrhic victories / edited with an introduction by John V. Denson.
	www.weyrich.com /book_reviews/costs_war.html (349 words)

	Republic of Carthage: Component Descriptions
		Eliminated when Pyrrhic War are defeated, or If not at War, remove on die roll of 5 or 6 at end of Forum Phase.
		For any Combat TDR against the Sicilian, Pyrrhic or 1st Roman Wars, if the total of the white DR is odd, randomly remove that number of legions from the Carthaginian force.
		The General must be deployed against a War on the same turn of election and he remains in office until the War is defeated or he is recalled by the Senate.
	spotlightongames.com /variant/Roc/appendix.html (2647 words)

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		Let say that the game is dull in several scenarios and it too slow in development during the combat phase (the heart of the system) both you choose the strategic combat table or the tactical module (that makes the game even longer than usual).
		This is unfortunate as the designer John Suclife try to achieve something short of a wargaming masterpiece, giving the players the opportunity to re-enact several war fought by Rome in Italy during her centuries long existence.
		The map, backprinted, depicts the Italian peninsula with a point to point system, with circles representing the various cities present in Italy plus the various tribal centers for the enemies of Rome.
	grognard.com /reviews1/sixagainst.txt (430 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/Pyrrhic victory
		Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications -- but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.
		Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.
		A Pyrrhic victory is so called after the Greek king Pyrrhus, who, after suffering heavy losses in defeating the Romans in 279 B.C., said to those sent to congratulate him, "Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone."
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2003/07/16.html (200 words)

	Republic of Rome "Birth of the Republic" Scenario
		The 1st Punic War is not necessarily the first war in the Early Republic as it is shuffled into that deck.
		The biggest decision with regards to Wars is whether to attack two of them simultaneously or concentrate on one of them, when there are more than one.
		A good source for popularity is fighting wars, but since the Field Consul goes to war first, it could be difficult to send the Rome Consul to a war.
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	Chapter 5: War as Righteous Rape and Purification
		Richard G. Sipes, "War, Combative Sports and Aggression: A Preliminary Causal Model of Cultural Patterning." In Martin A. Nettleship et al., Eds., War, Its Causes and Correlates.
		Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kenneth O’Reilly, "Core Wars of the Future." In Robert K. Schaeffer, Ed., War in the World-System.
		Ruth Seifert, "War and Rape: A Preliminary Analysis." In Alexandra Stiglmayer, Ed., The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	www.psychohistory.com /htm/eln06f_footnoteswar.html (6045 words)

	Chapter 2: Cold War: The Pyrrhic Gambit, "THE SECRET TEAM", 1997
		BY THE SUMMER OF 1955 THE CIA had grown to the point where it was ready to flex its wings in areas in which it had never before been able to operate and in ways that would test its intragovernmental potential.
		The Cold War has been fought along the perimeter of the zones of Communism and of the Free World, along what is called the Iron Curtain, the Northern Tier, and the Bamboo Curtain.
		However, the inability of the rebels to win decisive victories and to enlist the aid of neutrals or of the regular forces of the Government turned the war back gradually in favor of the loyalist army.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/ST/STchp16.html (5882 words)

	NetLibrary Access (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000
		The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
		Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
	www.cc.gatech.edu /fac/Thomas.Pilsch/NetLibrary.html (690 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Pyrrhus the Eagle, King of Epirus: The Fool of Hope, 319-272 BC
		In the Pyrrhic War, King Pyrrhus defeated Roman armies at the battles of Heraclea and Asculum but his army suffered heavy losses.
		Like Hannibal Barca in the 2nd Punic War he was adept at defeating Roman armies but lacked sufficient resources to besiege Rome.
		Despite the eventual failure of all his wars Pyrrhus was much admired in antiquity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A2583993 (3030 words)

	A Copperhead Abolitionist
		"[T]he New Model Army and the war effort rested on a vast and unprecedented amount of federal coercion against Northerners as well as the South; a huge army was conscripted, dissenters and advocates of a negotiated peace with the South were jailed, and the precious Anglo-Saxon right of habeas corpus was abolished for the duration."
		If the American Revolutionary War was just, then it follows as the night the day that the Southern cause, the War for Southern Independence, was just, and for the same reason: casting off the ‘political bonds’ that connected the two people."
		It cannot be overemphasized that the Union’s invasion of the Confederacy had territorial covetousness at its root, not emancipatory fervor.
	www.lewrockwell.com /kantor/kantor46.html (690 words)

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