Schumpeter

摘要

IN THEIR documentary "The Vietnam War", Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, the directors, dwell on the flawed information that American politicians got from Indo-China. The generals on the ground focused on the "kill ratio", or the number of enemies killed per American or South Vietnamese soldiers killed. That bore no relationship to victory-North Vietnam quickly replaced its dead soldiers. And it corrupted behaviour, leading American troops to embellish numbers and count dead civilians as "wins".