Sentence examples for casualty aversion from inspiring English sources

September 11th presumably reduced casualty aversion even further.

The talk here is of the proliferation of MOOTW's (military operations other than war); of a top-to-bottom Pentagon review of what the military's purpose really is; of the pernicious effects of thinking that wars can be won without casualties or planned around the goal of "casualty aversion" -- in short, of a noble vocation trying to find its intellectual and ethical bearings.

Listen for a moment to Gen. Daniel J. Kaufman, the dean of the academic board, speaking of the hazards of "casualty aversion": I think it's pernicious, because what it says is officers no longer have the right to use their judgment, to make decisions based on the situation on the ground and act decisively in accordance with what they believe to be the requirements of carrying out their mission.

That's why the casualty-aversion thing is troubling to me.

Whereas in the past emerging markets were normally the first casualties of investors' risk aversion, this time they stood firm.Of course, emerging markets have changed.

The Vietnam syndrome and the public's aversion to casualties inspired the strict Weinberger-Powell guidelines for the commitment of forces abroad.

The alacrity with which Ronald Reagan scuttled from Lebanon after the marine barracks bombing in 1983 confirmed this belief that America's aversion to casualties was the superpower's Achilles heel.As he soon discovered, Saddam was wrong about the Vietnam syndrome.

Given the American electorate's aversion to casualties, and the continental European armies' domination by conscripts, the total number of effective peacekeepers available to western governments is surprisingly low.

He's starting to think that in a hundred years we're going to look back on war the way we now look back on slavery, as an obsolete institution, and we'll say, "What were people thinking back then?" He thinks we're getting close to being finished with war, that our aversion to casualties is a part of that.

Given declining military budgets, Americans' aversion to casualties among their pilots and other combat forces, fast-improving anti-aircraft missiles and a new Navy doctrine that foresees fighting more wars near shore than out at sea, the Navy's top admiral, Jeremy M. Boorda, wants an inexpensive, versatile vessel bristling with firepower.

"A Revolution in Warfare" discusses Americans' aversion to taking casualties.