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This is a common saying or trope with the number varying to a degree. The original version I know of is that in the Soviet military it was an acceptable loss to
by Etheryte 4y ago
This is a common saying or trope with the number varying to a degree. The original version I know of is that in the Soviet military it was an acceptable loss to lose two people out of a hundred during a regular training operation.
- mdp2021 4y agoSome may have put a number somewhere, but the general idea is not unique. And of course, there is that """detail""": «during a regular /training/ operation». This is the humour of Crock (Bill Rechin, Brant Parker and Don Wilder): «Losing fourteen men on patrol bothering you Poulet? You are thinking of bettering it, but we do not have twenty-eight to spare». More to the glacial reality, it is said that the notorious dictator who made the move in '39, once presented with a report of particularly heavy losses, after a pause said "After all, this is what the young are for". Some people can have so debatable ideas.