Okay, I can't help you with the War of the Worlds thing, I'm sorry to say...but in a general sense, here is how you win a war:

1. Make sure in the first place that it is POSSIBLE to win said war...in other words, check out the odds. If the Japanese had done this in 1941, and cooler heads had prevailed, they would NOT have launched a war on the USA which had a gross national product ten times larger than their own.

2. If you think it is POSSIBLE to win, and you think there is NO OTHER WAY out, then launch said war with absolute determination and give it your utmost effort possible to the limit of your strength.

3. Accept the fact that there will be losses, probably heavy ones.

4. Do not unnecessarily divide your forces (as Custer did at Little Big Horn, and the Japanese did at Midway).

5. Hit the enemy where they are weakest.

6. Cut their supply lines.

7. Isolate their strong points and starve them out.

8. Use good reconaissance and good intelligence work at all times.

9. Maximize production efficiency.

10. Fight according to strategic realities, not emotional considerations. Had Hitler done so, he would not have lost an army in Stalingrad, for example.

11. When the enemy is stronger, it is wise to defend carefully. When you are stronger, then attack.

12. Don't defend useless ground or weak positions. Give up such ground.

13. If you reach the point where you cannot win on the battlefield, negotiate...or resort to guerilla warfare. A determined guerilla force may eventually wear down a more powerful conventional occupying force and destroy its will to fight, as the Vietnamese did when resisting France and America.

14. Believe in your cause. If you can't do that, don't fight.

All of the above assumes that either you...or the other side...or both...have missed the main point of human existence, which is that we are all of one spirit. "We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms."