9 essential steps how to lose a war:

1. Make a list of all terror suspects.
2. Suck in all the money from your country's citizens in order to hire more security men and boost the military industrial complex.
3. Don't move and wait until one of the suspects attacks you.
4. Now alert your soldiers stationed somewhere abroad and make them shoot innocent inhabitants.
5. Wait until another suspect kills your soldiers.
6. Do it again and again until all of your soldiers are dead.
7. Draft more people into the army.
8. Repeat steps 1-7 until everyone is dead.
9. Cease-fire.