“If you accept the terms of analysis, that things can be reduced to win, loss and tie, then this record is not very good,” [career Army officer, author and historian Andrew] Bacevich says. “While there aren’t many losses — according to how they code — there’s a hell of a lot of ties, which would [invite] the question of why, based on these criteria, U.S. policy has seemingly been so ineffective.”

But if you look at it against the criterion of war-oligarch profitability, it's a record of continuous success!