I suppose I am arguing something else then, yes - I do not dispute or agree with the claim that the English military focused on decisive battles (since I don't know), but if they did focus on decisive battles, it didn't show succesfully in the field during the 17th and 18th century. There may have been some decisive battles in the colonies and one or two decisive naval battles, but in European field battles the victories needed to come in large quantities to have a big impact (and that was pretty rare, to have such a concentrations of victories on just one side).Perhaps the discussion was muddied by the detail. Essentially, @Zinegata stated:
My initial point was that the concept of a decisive battle formed out of the English Civil War (probably given experience in the Swedish style in the 30 years war) and formed the base principals for how the English/British military developed over the next centuries. This then resulted in the rather agressive responses which followed. I also struggle when people claim that, despite multiple citations specifically discussing the concept, claim it is 'bs'.