{"id":329714,"date":"2026-08-06T04:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329714"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:45:40","slug":"us-finds-a-new-way-to-undercount-casualties-from-iranian-retaliation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329714","title":{"rendered":"US finds a new way to \u2018undercount\u2019 casualties from Iranian retaliation: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PressTV.ir \u2013 Aug 4, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The US Department of War has introduced a new system for \u201ccounting\u201d American military casualties from Iran\u2019s retaliation, separating the troops killed or wounded since July 7 from those recorded during the earlier months, a report shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Casualties incurred since July 7 are now listed on a separate Department of War webpage under the generic designation \u201cOverseas Operations,\u201d rather than being included directly in the existing Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) tally for the unprovoked American-Israeli aggression that targeted the Islamic Republic from February 27 until April 7, investigative American outlet the Intercept reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pentagon says over 640 troops killed or wounded in \u2018quiet\u2019 database update on Iran war<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NUtUUV9lp8\">https:\/\/t.co\/NUtUUV9lp8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PressTV Extra (@PresstvExtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PresstvExtra\/status\/2081642469339410902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Monday total on the new page, 273 US troops have been killed or wounded since July 7.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with the casualties caused from Iranian retaliation to the 40-day aggression, the official casualty count currently stands at 704.<\/p>\n<p>The Intercept noted, however, that previous reporting by the outlet has identified known casualties missing from the Department of War&#8217;s official figures, putting the total at more than 900 personnel when those cases are included.<\/p>\n<p>Even by the department\u2019s own account, the casualties caused since July 7 represents an 83-percent increase from those incurred previously, it also reported.<\/p>\n<p>The report followed one by the outlet late last month, in which it cited a US official as saying that Iran had demonstrated an increasing ability to strike US military facilities across West Asia by combining attack drones with advanced ballistic missiles. It noted at the time that the Islamic Republic has carried out retaliatory strikes against at least nine US military outposts across the region since July 9. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said several of the facilities had sustained \u201csignificant damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Iran shows increasing ability to strike American military targets through combined operations: Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJAlAUgAGo\">https:\/\/t.co\/fJAlAUgAGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV \uf53b (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressTV\/status\/2082253519990497508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Department of War \u2018explains\u2019 new accounting method<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The department told <em>The New York Times<\/em> that since the 40-day aggression has concluded, it classifies casualties as \u201cOverseas Operations\u201d in the area of responsibility assigned to CENTCOM, which overseas the American troops deployed to West Asia.<\/p>\n<p>A US government official told the Intercept that the new system was \u201cdesigned to obscure the count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is certainly designed to conceal the count of the wounded,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Department of War spokesperson Sean Parnell has, however, described reports of an effort to withhold information about US casualties as \u201cbaseless and malicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DCAS figures have also changed repeatedly. On July 21, the system listed 500 casualties from the Iranian response to the 40-day aggression. That figure has since fallen to 431.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on April 21, the number of wounded-in-action personnel was slashed by 15 too without a public explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Department of War records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and examined by the War Horse, which reports on US military and veterans issues, also recorded more than 400 casualties between February 28 and April 8, including 70 on March 18 alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.co.uk\/Detail\/2026\/08\/04\/773750\/United-States-killed-wounded-Iran-retaliation\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of War has introduced a new system for counting military casualties, which will also help play down the scale of US losses <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":324572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-u-s-israel-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329715,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329714\/revisions\/329715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}