Total enemy losses to date were estimated at 158, and Nato's at 52.
Put bluntly, all these men had been shot to swell the figure of enemy losses and highlight our own heroic deeds.
The enemy losses, he calculated, were around two thousand.
The attack was successful, with enemy losses totaling over 10 thousand.
("Poor assessment technology made enemy losses difficult to estimate").
The men streaming up from the Old World had replaced the enemy losses several times over.
Probable enemy losses between one hundred and three thousand dead.
The enemy losses were severe, amounting to about two hundred killed and wounded.
Proponents of this tactic claimed interceptions in large numbers caused greater enemy losses while reducing their own casualties.
Because without the cold-war psychological framework, the Kursk disaster was not seen as an enemy loss.