And did so, in my judgment, with acceptable losses to truth and history.

No, he was past the point of thinking in terms of "acceptable losses."

I can tell you this; 'acceptable losses' will be a percentage of his troops, rather than a hard number.

In wartime, commanders have always had to learn the concept of "acceptable losses."

The battalion was still able to advance with "acceptable loss."

They remembered the ex-General who had talked of "acceptable losses."

A few of his men had gone down, but not many, and well within acceptable losses.

However, I have a feeling we'd be considered 'acceptable losses' in case we came under attack.

Anticipated casualties in a military campaign may be held to be acceptable losses as well.

A terrorist group may consider the loss of its own members in suicide attacks to be acceptable losses needed to accomplish the mission.