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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…unless you’ve bolstered your ranks with mercenaries, prisoners, disappeared homeless, and you’re drawing from a dispersed population so you only take a few from each town… and you’ve got a propaganda machine that can disguise how many were sent into battle in the first place and lie on the back end about how many are dead.

How many people have died in car accidents so far this year? Do you really know, or do you trust the reporting? What if the reporting is owned by the car companies?

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