david lloyd george said we have found the enemy and it is us.
who said we have found the enemy and it is us?
david lloyd george
Na
Na
it was estimated that around 220,000 civilians killed by us/arvn operations were miscounted as "enemy kia" as when free-fire zones were declared it was erroneously assumed all individuals were enemy combatants for official us military operations reports, there are no distinctions between enemy kia and civilian kia since it was assumed by us forces that an area declared a free-fire zone that all individuals killed regardless of whether they were combatants or civilians were considered enemy kia. since body counts was a direct measure of operational success this often caused us battle reports to list civilians killed as enemy kia. the inclusion of civilians killed led to the enormous discrepancy between weapons seized and "enemy kia" during operation speedy express, with nearly 10,000 enemy kia with just 748 weapons found. most of the those counted as "enemy killed" were unarmed civilians. the my lai massacre and son thang massacre both reported women and children killed as "enemy combatants".
vietnam war body count controversy