So we can trick lurkers into taking the plunge and showing themselves?
I dunno....
For decades the Red Brigade terrorized Italy. Italy fought back ... and the Red Brigades kept it up. Finally it stopped. Maybe it was because of the breakup of the USSR - maybe the RB'ers gave up.
Rome lost battle after battle - tens of thousands of men dead - whole legions lost - to Hannibal ---- but Rome never surrendered. Well, I said this in another thread, so someone's going to side-swipe me for bringing it up here. Anyway, Rome never gave up, and Rome won - Rome destroyed Carthage. Hannibal escaped to the Middle East and committed suicide far from home, a broken man, with Roman agents closing in on him. Not much changes.
Anyway, stamina is often the deciding variable, it seems. I could be wrong, but there's a strong case for this.