Originally Posted by
Peter1469
As I said, you don't understand the language. When I speak of military effectiveness I mean a term of art. In other words, if you deploy a division of ~17000 troops into combat and 100 are killed, and another 900 are wounded, the military effectiveness of the division is not diminished. When I was in the airborne, it was expected that we would lose 10% of our strength in a jump into a hot landing zone. That didn't even count on out effectiveness stats.
I doubt that you have any military experience at all, much less advanced staff officer courses. So I forgive you for not understanding the topic. I apologies for hitting you with a topic you are not prepared to discuss.
But yes. All the Kiwis deployed to Afghanistan could have died at once, and it would not have affected the NATO effort in Afghanistan (militarily- not politically). How does that make you feel?