Instead, his deadly rivals from Cali, Colombia's other major trafficking group, played the decisive role in the destruction of that drug lord's power and support systems, combining well-funded intelligence with bloodthirsty ruthlessness.
His "IBM and the Holocaust" drops the bombshell of a revelation that the Nazis, in pursuing the destruction of European Jewry, were assisted in decisive ways by a leading American corporation.
Although this push resulted in many arrests of militants and the destruction of their bases, it did not achieve a decisive defeat.
The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam's II Corps Tactical Zone.
The Byzantine Ottoman Wars were a series of decisive conflicts between the Ottoman Turks and Byzantines that led to the final destruction of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire.
And Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards — a group you have accused of proliferating weapons of mass destruction — also warned that his forces would respond with an "even more decisive" strike if attacked.
David Kay, the former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, told me that Chalabi's influence inside the Bush Administration was decisive, particularly when it came to the C.I.A.'s conclusion that Saddam was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
Æthelred's decisive victory over the Northumbrians at the Battle of the Trent in 679, followed by the Picts' destruction of the Northumbrian army at the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685, reduced Northumbrian power and influence.
Across Equatoria, villages like Loopo are being swept up in violence as government and rebel forces vie for control, spelling destruction for once idyllic farming communities and signifying something deeper: neither side is anywhere near securing a decisive military victory.
Unbelievable destruction.
