[GreenLanternCorps]

"Nobody gives up territory willingly. A retreat is a retreat and it has been forced on them (if this story is true, of course.)"

A strategic withdrawl is when you pull your forces out of an exposed position and move to more defendable ground. A retreat is when you are forced from ground by your enemy's direct actions. It's a subtle difference, true, but it does exist.

[tet68]

There's just nothing like a retreat for killing enemies.

Confusion,fear,panic,let the slaughter begin.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

War is a game of supply. Taliban forces could not be re-supplied there. Retreat or die was their alternative.

[jlogajan]

Patton said he never wanted to pay for the same real estate twice.