Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Did anyone ask the simple question... why?
How up to speed are you on the confluence of Pashutn/Afghan and Muslim culture?
...aren't any kind of measurement? You must be kidding. Is there no limit to the stupid things people will say in blind support of a stupid policy?
Well if you want to play in this jungle, then get used to very smart men saying very dumb things. It's the norm, not the exception.

a.) Soldiers do not make policy. They set it forth, and in doing that sometimes alters it - It's CvC. It is relevant.
b.) Does recording the enemy known to have been killed, and recovering their weapons have intelligence value? Yes it does - IMO.
.... but the efficacy of that has to be set within a wider picture.

I actually started this thread to submit the thesis that body counts have value. As I said before, that value has to be set in context.
Merely publishing "we got 3 today and 9 yesterday" or tallying the number of enemy KIA on a Website is utterly useless.