And the Egyptians adopted their military technology. And then the Egyptians destroyed the Hyksos and expelled them from Egypt.

Twice it has led to world war in which the emergent power was defeated.

Aries' team, led by Garett Bischoff, ended up defeating Ray's team, led by Eric Bischoff.

Across Russia, celebrations have commenced honoring the 200th anniversary of Tsar Alexander I's defeat of France's Napoleon Bonaparte.

Most importantly, however, the threats, journalists and reporters face in Iraq, will not come to an end with the defeat of ISIS, as they are also at the mercy of armed militia groups.

There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.

As other nations celebrated the defeat of nazism, Latvia was subjected to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of innocent persons and the systematic destruction of the Latvian State and national identity.

Moreover, the supposedly powerful Uganda army was ignominiously defeated on three occasions, most notably in the martyr city of Kisangani.

While some question Moscow s commitment to defeating ISIS in Syria, Russia s campaign against the extremist group at home is undeniable.

Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 20 minutes.

The war of attrition followed the June 1967 war, in which Egypt to the immense surprise of most of its citizens and the outside world was soundly defeated.

If each relative military success is accompanied by an absolute political defeat, as was the case with the recent military operations in Gaza, what is the ratio between costs and benefits?

The French Third Republic was the republican government of France between the end of the Second French Empire following the defeat of Louis Napoléon in the Franco Prussian war in 1870 and the Vichy Regime after the invasion of France by the German Third Reich in 1940.

The war of attrition followed the June 1967 war, in which Egypt to the immense surprise of most of its citizens and the outside world was soundly defeated. Its air force was crippled and its army was virtually overrun, with Israel capturing the entire Sinai Peninsula.

I refer to the military failures of a State that based its military potential on racism and aggression against neighbouring countries and that suffered a crushing defeat at Cuito Cuanavale, which, in conjunction with other internal and external factors, marked the irreversible decline of apartheid.

Yazidis are an Iraqi ethno religious minority, who fled their homes in the ancient town Sinjar close to Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan and the Iraq Syria border, after militants from the Islamic State (IS also known as ISIS) defeated Kurdish forces there on Sunday.

Israel needs allies, because its ultimate security depends on its legitimacy nearly as much as on its deterrence capability. If each relative military success is accompanied by an absolute political defeat, as was the case with the recent military operations in Gaza, what is the ratio between costs and benefits?