Team Petraeus Brings Body Counts Back By: Spencer Ackerman | Wired

It wasn’t long ago that counterinsurgency advocates argued that the real measure of progress in a war wasn’t the number of enemies killed. Instead, it was the number of lives saved, civilians kept out of harm’s way, and attacks reduced. But that was before counterinsurgency ran up against the difficulties of the Afghanistan war. Now, the body counts are back. In a big way.