By "win" I mean to kill the opponent in that specific battle. >>"[..] I'm not sure that it's fair to say that the US has "won" either of the two major asymmetr

By "win" I mean to kill the opponent in that specific battle. >>"[..] I'm not sure that it's fair to say that the US has "won" either of the two major asymmetric wars it's been engaged" In order to know if the US has won, we would need to know what were the goals of those wars in the first place. I'm not sure we know that.