You are way off the mark if you think that is how war plans are derived for starters....And what, losing over 200,000 in less then 5 years is? (WWII?) -
Those who suggest body-count numbers are a variable for success (if the cause/war is just and right) are of a sick mind.
The MSM love body count numbers (for our side) because they are sick....and they know they can spin those negative without any context whatsoever -
And bud, yes, the reality is no war-gamers would have told you 6 years ago that we'd remove the Gov't of Afghanistan and remove the Saddam regime with less then 4000 KIA combat deaths.....You would have been laughed out of the DoD and Pentagon...
Most gamers were suggesting over 10,000 KIA for accomplishing EACH (behind the scenes).
We are in a world war right now - Great men & women warriors are going to end up paying the highest price one can give to this great nation in this war. For that, they don't deserve pity or weak-kneed civ's back home....They deserve civ's back stateside to cowboy the Fk up and deal with some unpleasant news once in awhile...understanding that on the whole these efforts are making us safer (the world safer).....That on the whole the only true way to be successful in both the short and long term is to change the heart of the ME....
Which is exactly what we are doing.
No. I judge whether we’re winning by whether we’ve got the guts to play thru the end game, and it’s very apparent that we don’t. They don’t need to kill 200,000 Americans to win this war. 5,000 will do it.