Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/ PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Such a victory negates...

contemporaries describe Borodino as a Pyrrhic victory. Russian historian Oleg Sokolov posits that Borodino constituted a Pyrrhic victory for the French, which would...

shall be utterly ruined." This is the source of the expression "Pyrrhic victory", a victory that inflicts losses the winner cannot afford in the long term...

Pyrrhic defeat theory /ˈpɪrɪk/ is the idea that those with the power to change a system, benefit from the way it currently works. In criminology, pyrrhic...

casualties on the opposing side to cripple their advance, resulting in a Pyrrhic victory for the enemy). Battle of Antietam, American Civil War: The battle...

battles caused him unacceptably heavy losses, from which the phrase "Pyrrhic victory" was coined. Pyrrhus became king of Epirus in 306 BC at the age of...

they released four studio albums: Intwine (2003), Perfect (2004), Pyrrhic Victory (2006) and Kingdom of Contradiction (2009). On October 16, 2010, Intwine...

Pyrrhic Victory is the sixth EP by American metalcore band Zao, released on November 3, 2017. It is the third release by the band on their own Observed/Observer...

second Persian invasion. It is sometimes stated that Thermopylae was a Pyrrhic victory for the Persians (i.e., one in which the victor is as damaged by the...

won by decisive battles and blockade. Kantai Kessen Pyrrhic victory Strategic victory Tactical victory Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles...