Um, there are quite a lot of RTS games you're all overlooking here. The genre is bigger than C&C, War/StarCraft, and their franchises and clones. No mention of Total Annihilation? Age of Empires? Warzone 2100? The RTS games Relic have made haven't really fit the C&C or WC formula, especially DoW2. What about Sins of a Solar Empire, which could be called either RTS or RT4X? Homeworld is something all of its own again. What about Populous? What about Act of War or World in Conflict?

Properly speaking, games like Evil Genius, Dungeon Keeper, and Tropico can be called RTS games as well, though they have a different slant. So are games like Hearts of Iron or Europa Universalis.

The foremost names might be Westwood and Blizzard, but the genre is much much bigger and more diverse, and much less unified around particular ideas, than y'all seem to believe.