Your attitude is very American. However part of the reason why "casualties" are so expensive is thanks to how much they're played up in the media and how badly images of captures and/or tortured pilots can harm the war effort.
I can't help but recall Soviet tactics that didn't give a damn.
...massed wave attacks, suicide missions and equipment that was just good enough.
It was nasty, but they *did* win the war. Also they had no choice - the war was fought on their own soil over their own town and cities, their own land.
Our "sensibility" is a new thing and is an indication of how used modern societies are to peace and prosperity.
I think there are going to be some rude wake up calls in the future when - thanks to diminishing resources almost out of necessity - the new nations with little such inhibitions will stretch their muscles.
Massed wave attacks are horribly inefficient, and a
complete, utter waste of human life. You seem to have forgotten that Russia lost an amount of people equivalent to the present populations of Australia and New Zealand combined.
I absolutely do not respect a Platoon, or Company Commander who would look his boys in the eye and tell them to move forward into a killzone. I'd recommend they be stripped of their Queen's Commission and thrown in jail. Seeing rows upon rows of people dying is all fun and games when you're playing Call of Duty, not so, when those people are your friends, who are dying because of their superior's gross incompetence.
Personally, I believe there is no excuse for an Officer who believes in "massed waves". It is not necessary, and it's a bloody waste, a complete, ****ing, waste.
We have modern infantry tactics that keep soldiers
alive. A dead man is useful to no-one. Sensibility, using your 'noggin on the battlefield, and luck, is what keeps soldiers alive. Not some c*nt with a bar on his shoulder telling the boys to 'charge'. No, ****ing, excuse.
I don't disagree that a large mass of people will cause some hurt. That's why Indonesia is probably one of the biggest threats in our region aside from China. But man, there are better ways to get the job done.
