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> use more proper tactics
People have a distorted idea of what "war" entails. They've been fed propaganda movies where soldiers act like SWAT teams and do hit and run missions. American movies like "Windtalkers" are ridiculous in this sense. They portray the success of the entire mission as relying on a small unit of "heroes" who manage to infiltrate enemy trenches to shut down their radio communication unit (one station) which makes them unable to call in artillery support, then the army can rush the trenches.
That's not how large scale conflict works, it's a fantasy. What you need is a hierarchy with absolute dregs at the bottom, exactly for things like running against machine guns over open fields. They need to have an IQ of around 80 do be able to do this, but such people are today weeded out in recruiting.
Then, just as in society as a whole, there are better people in fewer numbers to do the organizing and machine operating, for giving orders and manning artillery. At the top you have generals who create large scale plans and organize the logistics.
Look at how the "fantasy warfare" went in Iraq and Afghanistan.
> oh no we can't afford losses, let's only have high value units that cost several millions in education per person
> then we'll act all neurotic from the fear of losing someone and have them shoot at anything that moves
> why are the locals rising up against us?
> we only killed a few families by mistake, daily, for years