Who won and who lost in this story?

There is real no winner in war.  Definitely the free thinking person with no chain of command was proven to be the most dangerous in this story.  I love the end when they take hostage the doctor and mayor hoping and almost expecting it to end something.  Essentially the occupying force lost on all fronts.  They couldn't deter an unseen unknown enemy without utterly destroying them as a people.  This book shows how much advantage the free thinkers have over the chain of command military society.  In terms of winning the war the occupying force in a way completed their objective in obtaining coal.  Yet they couldn’t control the people and thus the downfall of their men.  The analogy of flies caught on fly paper is so real for this situation.  Due to the regulations of their military there is no defense capable of stopping the unknown radical thinker.  This is an awesome display of the far reaching spectrum of war and combat.  I believe this war was mostly a mental battle.