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originally posted by: intrptr
Pentagon: US Believes Hundreds Of ISIS Fighters Killed In Kobani Strikes.
They also said that in Vietnam.
There, too it was all about the body count.
…the enemy body count was the primary measure of progress" in Westmoreland’s war of attrition. Search and destroy was coined as a phrase in 1965 to describe missions aimed at flushing the Viet Cong out of hiding, while the body count was the measuring stick for the success of any operation.
The numbers need to be high. Other wise it might be seen as a waste of time.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: seabhac-rua
How is that any different than today? Excessive firepower rules all American operations, then and now.
Neither is capturing the trackless deserts of the ME a priority. Oil? Now thats something to consider.
!0,000 bodies in the pulverized concrete? Now thats as difficult to quantify as KIA in trackless jungle, but good for endless war and excessive firepower.
There seems to be no recourse other than to deliver them to their maker as swiftly as possible.