The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam — When Metrics Replace Reality
What happens when a military can measure almost everything except whether its theory of victory corresponds to reality?
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Using The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam by James William Gibson as our lens, this episode investigates Gibson’s concept of Technowar: the transformation of warfare into a high-technology, capital-intensive production system organized around measurement, management, and escalation.
Gibson rejects both the argument that American forces were prevented from winning by political restraint and the…
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