It appears Obama's strategy is not just to win, but to win decisively, CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said.

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Cohen also said it's vital for the U.S. to maintain its edge in high-tech weaponry, to win quickly and decisively.

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One would expect that a person who believes the science is on his side would relish the opportunity to participate in, and decisively win, a nationally televised debate.

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Instead, Rumsfeld advocates a strategy under which the United States can win one major war decisively, while handling a series of lesser contingencies, including repelling the initial stages of a second major war.

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Mr Akaev is likely to win, but perhaps not decisively.

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Yet even its warmest admirers do not imagine that air power alone can win the battle for Kosovo quickly or decisively enough to prevent further killing there, let alone to impose a peace settlement.

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If you win close to 60% of the white vote and lose the electoral college decisively, you are heading into very difficult territory.

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But enough of them are likely to do so to put him ahead decisively, although not perhaps to give him the 83 votes he needs to win outright.

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