Apex Weapon (Current Mainstream Paradigm) - The Nuclear Submarine

Before the Nuclear submarine there was the diesel. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Redfin

When one grows up in a US Navy family where your father actually took the helm of one of these, the topic isn't simply winning, it is total dominance from an Apex Approach (AA).  Rather than a dirty Subterranean Fudge Gambit, one simply does what President Lincoln said in his Lyceum Address:

https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm

Lyceum Address

As one of Abraham Lincoln's earliest published speeches, this address has been much scrutinized and debated by historians, who see broad implications for his later public policies. Lincoln was 28 years old at the time he gave this speech and had recently moved from a struggling pioneer village to Springfield, Illinois.

William Herndon, who would become Lincoln's law partner in 1844, describes the event this way: "we had a society in Springfield, which contained and commanded all the culture and talent of the place. Unlike the other one its meetings were public, and reflected great credit on the community ... The speech was brought out by the burning in St. Louis a few weeks before, by a mob, of a negro. Lincoln took this incident as a sort of text for his remarks ... The address was published in the Sangamon Journal and created for the young orator a reputation which soon extended beyond the limits of the locality in which he lived."

The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:

Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois

January 27, 1838 ...

https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org 

 At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.