When did we start fighting wars with actuarial tables?
Many people on this site talk about the loss of life and why that is the determining factor about withdrawl from Iraq. When did the bean counters determine how to fight a war. One test of a theory is how does it do over events that have already occurred.
Here is the test; General Eisenhower has been presented a report that 8,000 Americans will likely die invading France at Normandy. The U.S. Senate has sent him a memo telling him that they will accept no more than 6,000 deaths. They remind him that the President is dying and may not live until the election. The invasion goes off as planned and the numbers start coming in... At 1745 on June 6 the bean counters say that 6,000 Americans have died. Eisenhower orders the others to return to their landing craft even the one that have left the beach and have advanced inland. The airborne are going to have to find their own way home. This is how the bean counter way works. It doesn't!
8,000 Americans died that day.
It started during the Korean 'War' and got much worse during Viet Nam.
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