I think the problem is the lack of degrees of loss and victory. There should be more emphasis placed on the actual result. In the case of this weeks battle, the team should have been informed that although they technically won the battle, it was entirely pyrrhic. They did not humiliate the Trojan forces at all (themselves maybe), and their own army was devastated to such an extent they're likely to have to sit outside the bloody city for ten years.

There's no strategic emphasis, these guys can have but a single man left on the field who has one arm left but it's still a 'victory' even if they're the invaders or something.