We Have Reserves: Difference between revisions

*** Conversely, Generals who manage to achieve victory with relatively few casualties are looked down upon as somehow not playing by the rules.

* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series, we have the People's Navy. How closely they fit the ''characterization'' aspects of this trope changes over time as Haven suffers serial revolutions. The first government depicted [[Moral Myopia|gleefully sacrifices their "worthless Proles"]] for the [[Blue Blood|aristocracy]]'s betterment; the second theoretically have more respect for the common man, but they're fanatics, ready to shoot any officer who won't steer his ship into the meat grinder ''themselves.'' The restored Republic of Haven is much less callous about the quality of quantity.

** The Solarian League Navy is noted on the ''Honor Harrington'' page itself as being ''so'' large, even their reserves have reserves.

* Interesting subversion in ''[[Ender's Game]]''. Ender, nearing a mental breakdown from stress, is given a wargame situation where the enemy outnumber his forces 1,000 to 1. {{spoiler|Trying to be removed from the strain, he orders a suicide mission that destroys the enemy homeworld... except the simulations he's trained with since graduating from Battle School haven't been simulations at all, and he's sent the entire Earth fleet on a suicide mission that destroys the enemy home planet. When this is revealed to him, he lapses into a coma.}}