Why UFP taking little lose during major war

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Why UFP taking little lose during major war

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Major Kira report UFP lost 1730 out latest causation reports .http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Siege_ ... episode%29 How come UFP taking light loses lease come ground forces.
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JasonB wrote:Major Kira report UFP lost 1730 out latest causation reports .http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Siege_ ... episode%29 How come UFP taking light loses lease come ground forces.
Major Kira reported that the UFP lost 1730 from the latest casualty reports.

How come the UFP took such light losses? After that I don't know what you're saying.




Anyway, it might be because infantry wise, the Klingons were bearing the brunt of it, and UFP ships aren't that filled to capacity.
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Losses on the ground are likely minimal because ground weapons heavier than a rifle are largely lacking and the big battles mostly take place in space. Losses in space, I'm not sure.
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JasonB, you better learn how to spell.

You sound like a major retard or somebody who gives no thought to his post.

Whatever the reason, shape up.
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If that was 1,730 people for say, one day on one desolate planet with only a few random spots being fought over like the communications relay, and with the Federation having highly advanced wound healing technology that probably means they simply don't report lightly wounded men (nor do many real militaries, especially in the world wars) that isn't exactly light. In other words without more information you can’t draw any real conclusions. 1,730 people a day even in one whole system would easily mean millions of casualties per year in the war.
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Thanas wrote:JasonB, you better learn how to spell.

You sound like a major retard or somebody who gives no thought to his post.

Whatever the reason, shape up.
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Wasn't it 1730 for the WEEK? As in, the Federation is losing close to 2000 starfleet personnel every seven days? This was during a time of relatively 'mild' fighting when there were just border skirmishes.
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Quick edit: I meant to say asvs.org, not .com.
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Wait a minute.

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Darksider wrote:Wait a minute.

There's still an ASVS?
Yes there is. The original is still around but pretty much dead and Tyralak has set up his own ASVS forum on his site. asvs.org.
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CaptainChewbacca wrote:Wasn't it 1730 for the WEEK? As in, the Federation is losing close to 2000 starfleet personnel every seven days? This was during a time of relatively 'mild' fighting when there were just border skirmishes.
That's how I read it. The reports were the weekly ones that Sisko posted in In the Pale Moonlight. The losses were for Starfleet, and thus included those at AR-558.
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You'd expect casualties to surge during major engagements, such as the battles at Chintoka or the fight to retake DS9- after all, Starfleet lost thousands of lives at the Battle of Wolf 359, and that was a relatively small-scale engagement, compared to what we saw in DS9.
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Thousands of lives, how does that translate into ships lost? IIRC the Galaxy class had some 800 crew but much of those were civilians who I would expect were not on board during the war. But is there any cannon data on the actual crew compliments?
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The Enterprise has the capacity to carry a fuckload of people, it's just that in peacetime you don't need to carry thousands. The Enterprise in the alternate timeline that was at war with the klingons had thousands of troops onboard.
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