Word: brandied
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Germany's Major Bruno Brandi: "The future war will be a continuous sum of single catastrophes and collapses. An open war [i.e., not in trenches] will be aimed at by all means. Fighting . . . in extended war areas . . . will cause casualties in large spaces . . . high numbers." Major Brandi estimated that in brief, strongly resisted attacks, daily casualties per 100 fighting men would be as high as 15, in prolonged battle, five to seven for attackers, four to six for defenders; that 20% of the wounded would be gas cases (compared...
...gravest losses to the army and nation, the dead, missing and the prisoners, are irrelevant to the medical services." Major Brandi figured that of every 100 casualties in open warfare, 15 would be irrelevant dead, ten would be missing, 75 would be relevant wounded...