The military moves often do not affect the outcome of war and there are some cases when heroism is celebrated even if it did not change the result.
General MacArthur learns the art of keeping the Japanese army chasing him and setting up for a battle, only to pull back and exhaust them. Rice shortages loomed in the Bataan Peninsula due to the new War Plan Orange III, which was supposed to be in place for months, and not foreseeing this move would cut Manila in a pincer movement and endanger his troops.
General Wainwright and his troops are struggling to keep the doors to Bataan open in order to save civilians and supplies, conducting a leapfrog rearguard action and destroying more than 180 bridges along the way.