Black Turn: Operation Barbarossa 1941 Take control of the Wehrmacht and its allies in Operation Barbarossa, from the dramatic early victories all the way to ignominious defeat at the gates of Moscow. (unityofcommand.net)
This set France on a course in Vietnam that led to the first Vietnamese war and, after much slaughter and suffering, to the ignominious defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu. (firstthings.com)
It is in regard to this set of considerations that I make sense of Paul's disorienting reversal of power and weakness in 1 Corinthians 1:17 — 25.11 There, the cross is neither God's counterintuitive triumph nor God's ignominious defeat. (religion-online.org)