Kevin Tolliver

Jan 13, 2024 | kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Kevin Tolliver |Julie Craig |Dennis Wichern

Reports sent back to Washington during the Vietnam War made it clear to everyone. The U.S. was winning. There could be no debate or doubt. It was right there in the numbers. When searching for a metric to measure “success,” U.S. politicians and the military had come to rely on body count comparisons. Defining “winning” as having a higher body count. And by that measure, the U.S. was indeed winning. We were killing over seven North Vietnamese soldiers for every one of ours.