Because the need to conserve your men as far as possible is a given.
It goes without saying.
You are trying to make something out of nothing because you have nothing.

T's son served in Afghanistan.
He has often posted in support of that war.
He never stated that deaths matter, but only someone with an nasty agenda and no scruples would claim that he did not care how many of our people died there just because he did not feel the need to actually state the obvious.