How do countries hide their losses during wars?

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I know it is normal for countries to deflate their casualty numbers during war, but how do they do it? If for example 1000 soldiers are killed in a month, how could a government claim only 400 were killed without the public discover this to be a lie? Surley the families of the killed soldiers are promptly informed.

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Say 1000 die and they actually inform all 1000 families.

And then publicly say it was 400. How would the families know their child was one of a 1000 instead of 1 of 400.

They are not exactly giving you a list of names to check.

You can’t just check with the family of each soldier to know if their kid died and the numbers are solid.

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