Slap,

So, my definition, created today, is "why we keep losing"? Ha! Such power I have!!

I would offer that the primary reason we "keep losing" is that we take on things we shouldn't take on, and then define winning in impossible terms.

Of course there is a spectrum of competition - but everything on that spectrum is not necessarily "special," "general," or "warfare."

(And I was very clear in my definition that a system of governance as I defined it did not need to be a state).