Body count tracking during Vietnam War directly encouraged inflated reports and poor metrics.

Evidence

Vietnam War body counts post (Simple History (Facebook))

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: American military reports were overly optimistic and non-critical. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 825; Proportionality calculations in war merely legitimate deaths rather than measure them — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1130; Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 282

Broader Connections

• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. #corroborates (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 282