Vietnam: "Count our inflated body count, we are winning!" GWOT: "Count our patrols, we are winning!" Red Sea: "Count our bombs dropped, we are winning!" Performance =/= effectiveness. We teach this at PME but refuse to accept it. - ThreadSky

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briankerg.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Vietnam: "Count our inflated body count, we are winning!"

GWOT: "Count our patrols, we are winning!"

Red Sea: "Count our bombs dropped, we are winning!"

Performance =/= effectiveness. We teach this at PME but refuse to accept it.

Reposted from Aric Toler

This new Times piece on the last month of American bombing of Yemen has some insane details.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

Comments

albertl.bsky.social•36 days ago

At least the first two had a bit more in the way of a casus belli than "we need to be seen as Doing Something to help Bibi perpetuate a crisis to keep himself out of court or a prison cell"

felinecannon.bsky.social•36 days ago

“Would it help if we gave you the number of aircraft dropped?”

christosilvia.bsky.social•36 days ago

Senior leaders don't like to hear "we've expended a lot of resources and got nothing / made things worse"!

meechelle.bsky.social•36 days ago

Will be great for SecDef to answer for. $1B blown like nothing.

blobodelendaest.bsky.social•35 days ago

It’s the only inevitable outcome from not having a post-war governance element anywhere with any power to take full control. This is why operators and combat arms grunts get the high posts even though they’re unqualified for them. Until there’s a separate service/corps, no lesson will be learned