The firing was intense, but it resulted in few friendly casualties.
But if no one wanted friendly casualties, there were going to be plenty of unfriendly ones.
There was a medical team here to treat "friendly" casualties.
It was enough to know that they had killed him, and without sustaining any friendly casualties.
He reviewed the tactics he wanted used to reduce friendly casualties.
The Spetsnaz was able to eliminate all three targets without causing friendly casualties.
He would not specify the changes, but insisted that "we have a solid program of trying to avoid friendly casualties."
Repeat, the duck is in the bag and there are zero friendly casualties.
To the degree that such a war can be fought at arm's length, with a minimum of friendly casualties, it will be.