FORMULA FOR WINNING A WAR

Cause the maximum amount of destruction to the enemy, his troops, supplies and otherwise with an absolute minimum amount of damage to your own troops and equipment.

That is the whole war formula of very successful upstat civilizations. That is the way they train them.

They train the US Army in trying not to get an "unacceptable casualty figure." They use this as a cliche. Everything is figured against a point of "unacceptable losses." When you have a suppressive general his acceptable losses are fantastic. My "unacceptable losses," of course, is one man.