Ep 74: Mark Moyar on Vietnam (New Makers of Modern Strategy #4)
School of War
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The Problems and Obvious Challenges With the Metrics of Attrition
There are certainly some excesses and quite a bit of false reporting. It's partly why there is this emphasis in the body count, because if you do count the bodies, then presumably it's hard to fake that. The North Vietnamese will often remove those casualties before they can be counted. So we now know from the North Vietnamese accounts that when the American troops come in, you know, they're taking horrific casualties.
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