Re: CIA Discloses Korean Spy Records

["A.M.J. Bielakowski" <abielak@yahoo.com>]

--- Ed Evanhoe <ede@oio.net> wrote:
>
> I agree with your "1)" but I can't let "2)" pass unchallenged since
> "10% or more of your military" would be just about everyone who
> ever saw actual combat.  This said, "Friendly Fire" incidents do
> happen far more often than ever reported.  There is a study I've
> read (done by Johns Hopkins Operations Research Office for
> the U. S. military in the 1950s) dealing with friendly fire incidents
> during the Korean War.  I don't remember the exact number they
> said took place but it was over a thousand which resulted in
> injury or death.  There findings were the majority these incidents
> were
> due to defective artillery ammunition.
> 
> Ed

Ed,

I was using a ballpark figure, which I do not believe is exceedingly
high.  As you say, we have no way of knowing exact numbers of
"friendly-fire" incidents, so I used a ballpark number (for which I
apologize, but I wanted to make a point).  Also it is important to
remember that "friendly-fire" incidents need not involve death, nor for
that matter injury to human beings.  My understanding, and I could be
wrong, is that the term merely refers to any incident in which troops
accidentally fire upon their comrades.

Alex

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Alexander M. Bielakowski
Ph.D. Candidate
Kansas State University
abielak@ksu.edu

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