It is now reasonably clear that, as the political leaders themselves understood it, there has been a strategic stalemate through the past 20 years.

The outcome of this war was a strategic stalemate with some small tactical victories for both sides but India suffered more loss.

The Keelung campaign ended in April 1885 in a strategic and tactical stalemate.

The trench warfare of the Western Front of World War I resulted in a strategic stalemate: defensive weapons and tactics prevailed over the offensive options available.

PAVN would introduce more (and better equipped) units and the U.S. would counter by the application of more airpower, producing a strategic stalemate.

In 1947 the PLA launched a counteroffensive during a brief strategic stalemate.

However, during World War I these entrenched positions were progressively made more sophisticated over longer periods, leading to their evolution into tactical, operational and strategic stalemates and the emergence of trench warfare.

It was in reality an attempt to create a doctrine for the remobilisation of warfare after the costly attrition of the strategic stalemate of the First World War.

The war in Italy settled into a strategic stalemate.

The war therefore ended in a strategic stalemate between the Dutch and the Spaniards in the 1640s, though for their part the French (faced with easier terrain) made large conquests in that period.