THe number of American troops killed, is quite frankly, pointless, as all it is is a reversal of the bodycount PR idiocy from Vietnam.

You engage in combat and press the enemy, you're going to have losses.

You tie the hands of the leaders in Theater, you're going to make those losses worse.

If you want the troops to win, then give them a way to win and stop getting in the damned way.

End the Bring all the troops home nonsense, all that accomplishes is a replay of Saigon.

End the false timetables, and equally as important end the fiction that we're not going to deal with people we officially don't like to end the mess.

We made deals with Stalin to win WW2............