The question of large losses

[Gary McClellan]

One of the always tricky issues is "what is a loss?" Is it a KIA/SeriousWIA? Or is it someone who has run for the day? Perhaps a cavalryman whose horse is too badly injured (or dead) to continue, but can't get back to any spares in a timely way?

In the end, "losses" are a way of looking at how the units effectively degrade (among other things). It's always kind of nebulous and hard to quantify it when you think about that though.