Combat Casualties Quotes

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.