Echoes of Vietnam? Casualty Framing and Public Perceptions of Success and Failure in Iraq
In the early stages of the counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, military leaders resisted the release of body count and "casualty ratio" data. However, in the spring of 2004, the U.S. military (and American media) began to focus on the "limited" American casualties in specific ope...
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| description | In the early stages of the counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, military leaders resisted the release of body count and "casualty ratio" data. However, in the spring of 2004, the U.S. military (and American media) began to focus on the "limited" American casualties in specific operations versus the "significant" number of insurgents killed. This article examines the extent to which body count/casualty ratio "frames" and individual casualty tolerance influence public perceptions about the war and the success or failure of U.S. military operations. Two experiments were conducted pitting alternative casualty frames against one another to measure their relative impact. The results demonstrate the influence of framing effects on public perceptions and clarify understanding of the determinants and impact of casualty tolerance. |
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