The Military's New Definition of Success

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/world/asia/20military.html?hp

Although the review is in its preliminary stages, General McChrystal is already pledging to expand the fight beyond the purely military campaign to defeat the insurgents.

“The measure of effectiveness will not be enemy killed,” General McChrystal told a Senate committee at his confirmation hearing on June 2. “It will be the number of Afghans shielded from violence.”

So in other words we have the Obama speak "definition" of military success. It's one of those ambiguous, unquantifiable terms of which our president is so fond. it's the military version of the "saved job"

Now we can say we saved or shielded 500,000 Afghans from violence therefore we won the war. It doesn't matter if the number cannot be proven by any conventional metric it just matters that a large number of Afghan citizens were "saved" from violence.

And prepare to have that "saved" figure repeated over and over again until the sheeple actually believe we "won" in Afghanistan.