数字战争
War of numbers
Adams, Sam · 初版 1994 年
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1973年离开 CIA 后，Adams 便着手撰写自己在该机构供职岁月的纪实。Adams 热爱情报工作，这种热情在他于1988年突发心脏病去世所遗留的未竟书稿中展露无遗。他曾计划……就越战期间的兵力数字争议与美国情报工作的失败写一部权威记录。学者们无疑会对 Adams 未能活着实现这一计划深感遗憾，但他留下的遗产或许更为弥足珍贵——一部生动异常、人物鲜活、对话精练，并对奇异的……有着非凡感知力的著作。
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如果你在找这方面具体例子的书，可以看看越战时期 CIA 分析师 Sam Adams 写的《War of Numbers》。这本书是在他去世后出版的，Internet Archive 上应该能找到。整本书讲的是美国情报界、军方 / DOD / 白宫……
If you're looking for a specific example of this, you might look at 'War of Numbers' by Sam Adams, a CIA analyst during the Vietnam War. It was published posthumously. It should be on the Internet Archive. The book is about the US intelligence community, the military / DOD / Whitehouse…
《War of Numbers》居然没能更出名，哪怕在学者圈里也是如此，真是太遗憾了。我觉得主要是因为它出版的时候，那代真正关心这事的人大多都已经不在人世了。我在 1980 年代的那帮同龄人经常会聊到……
It's really a shame War of Numbers isn't better known, even among scholars. I think the lack of attention is because it was published after most of the generation who really cared had passed on. My cohorts in the 1980s talked a good deal…