Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen
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No one said you cannot assert the Soviets and the Americans 'lost' in Afghanistan, but there is a catch...All you have to do is go to your generals and make that assertion to their faces and see how hard they laugh.
The reason they laugh, at least inwardly so as not to offend you, is that the military have a different context of 'lost' and 'losing' than civilians. For the military, any military, losing a war is harsh because they actually lose something, like a limb or even life, when they are wrong, while for civilians, when they casually talk of 'lost' or 'losing', the worst they ever lose is their credibility when they are wrong. Civilians can go on with their lives unaffected whereas I have to suffer PTSD, difficult to move because I am less one leg, nowhere to get a job, jolt whenever I hear a loud noise, and cannot hold a conversation with my family and friends. For the military, losing a war is physical while for civilians losing is theoretical.
So yes, by all means, assert that the US 'lost' to the Taliban. And see how many armies would believe you and take on the US military just on your say so.
You can do a war even if you don't have a single casualty. You can win a war even if you have millions of casualties, like the US in WW2. War is about objective, not about casualty.