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concept-264	none	We don't do Body Counts: A study of the Pentagon and the Controversy of Civilian Casualties in Modern Warfare*	2005	17	.pdf	application/pdf	6906	264	47	Margot Norris’ research on censorship in the Persian Gulf War argues: The double defeat in Vietnam, military and moral, prompted the new body count practice…Shedding the Vietnam syndrome has always meant achieving a double power: the ability to win an absolute and ‘clean’ military victory by full use of American technological superiority, and the ability to win an absolute and ‘clean’ moral victory by full use of the Pentagon’s virtually absolute control over martial necrology.17 One tension that developed within the Pentagon as a result of silence on civilian casualty figures was the conflict between proclamations of hi- tech proficiency against surfacing reports of rising civilian casualties. However, the two-day grace for civilians to evacuate became a four-day standstill, momentum lost to concerns in Baghdad and Washington over civilian casualties and other unknown political considerations.	cache/concept-264.pdf	txt/concept-264.txt