the fact that you consider human life unimportant ?

He has said nothing to justify that slur.
It goes without saying that you should try to win with the minimum of loss, and Britain did that better than any other army in the field.

of those respecting the dead, he forgot to mention the two Daves, Raggytash, Musket, Jim Carroll and others, hopefully even myself.

It is not respectful in the least to accuse them of being so stupid that they were unable to understand the cause for which they fought, especially when there is hard historical evidence that they did, and that they believed the cause worth fighting for to the end of the war and after.