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The Middle East conflict with Iran has cost more American lives than official figures reflect.
officials familiar with the Department of Defense's internal casualty accounting data say the number of American service members killed in the ongoing hostilities exceeds what the Pentagon has publicly disclosed.
The officials described their knowledge as drawn from the internal accounting specifically, the records the Department of Defense holds apart from what it has communicated to the public.
That framing points to a gap between what the Defense Department tracks and what appears in its public disclosures. Pentagon casualty counts are the figures policymakers, reporters, and families work from.
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