April 27, 2004

Body Counts

One of things that the army has been very reluctant to do in recent years is keep a count of enemy body counts. There are several good reasons for this. One of the lessons of Vietnam and later Somalia is that the US can rack up a massive kill ratio and still end up in a bloody defeat. So I have to think that the recent move to include body counts in the stories that the military puts out can't be good.

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