If you want to call 3,300 war dead "tremendous loses"
This can't even be considered a paper cut. If people go into hysterics over 800 dead per year in a war, then I think we as a society are finished. There's no way we'd be able to maintain a fight against a foe of more equal capability. What would people like Bowser be saying if we were taking casualties like those in Korea or heaven forbid WWII? On some days in WWII, we were taking more than 3,300 dead on a single day, and for days on end. Numbers like that today would be met with instant surrender by our side.