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** Cleverly averted when the Americans left Iraq, however. The time table was "by the end of the year", even though they were gone by Christmas. [[Genre Savvy]] General, perhaps?
* This was one of the points of the Greek phalanx. They could finish the war in one day, congratulate themselves on how manly they were, and adjust the turf(literally as they were primarily agriculturalists fighting over, well, turf)according to who won. There were few hard feelings and no attempt to pursue. And the price of defeat was considered less then the price of a sustained campaign in the Middle Eastern manner. This of course included the assumption that the invaded side would come out and play but most Greek states did not consider an enemy holding their fields hostage [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken| worth the humiliation.]]
* The [[w:Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion of Ukraine]], which launched on February 24, 2022, was supposed to be a glorious three-day steamroll that would quickly and cleanly overwhelm Ukraine and turn it back into just another Russian territory. As of this writing it has been going on for nearly eighteen months; Ukraine has begun making inroads into Russian territory and has succeeded in delivering attacks on Moscow.
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