A leaked RAND report on the counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan includes this little tidbit, according to the Guardian UK: Its sources complain of commanders who have slipped into relying on “the fallacy of body counts”, discredited after the war in Vietnam as a measure of success. …An anonymous source quoted in the report stated that [...]
Archive for March 6, 2009
Body Counts are Back
Posted: March 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, body counts, counterinsurgency, Korea, Vietnam
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