Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Pentagon covering up US casualty numbers – analysis

US casualty numbers faked
Pete Hegseth. Image – JordanBVide0s, X.

Nearly 750 U.S. troops have been killed or wounded in the Middle East since October 2023, according to an analysis by The Intercept, with allegations the Pentagon is misleading the US public on the true scale of casualties.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has been accused by a defence official of providing outdated and incomplete figures, including a statement listing 303 wounded that failed to include recent attacks, while also declining to provide a full death toll. The report estimates at least 15 American service members have died since the war with Iran began, with officials warning the real numbers may be significantly higher.

The lack of transparency comes as Iranian retaliation intensifies, with missile and drone strikes hitting U.S. bases across multiple countries including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Qatar. At least 15 troops were wounded in a single recent attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, while hundreds more have been injured in ongoing hostilities. Critics say the Pentagon has failed to adequately prepare or protect its forces despite years of warnings about drone and missile threats, with some troops reportedly forced to relocate from bases to hotels and civilian buildings—raising concerns about increased risks to both military personnel and civilians.



Analysts and former military leaders have warned the situation reflects deeper strategic failures, with insufficient investment in base defences and a lack of clear communication to the public about the human cost of the conflict. Experts argue that accurate casualty reporting is essential for accountability, particularly as the war expands and economic and security impacts grow. With contractor injuries potentially pushing the total number of casualties far higher, critics say the true toll of the conflict may be far greater than officially acknowledged.

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    • …just like in Vietnam, as noted in the Watergate break-in and the fact that General Westmoreland kept offering Hopium to the criminals in D.C., and was later caught out!
      DOD head Robert McNamara later resigned…and was part of the problem…!
      Nixon ended Vietnam, and for this the MIC and Zionist stockholders of the same went after ‘Big Dick’ Nixon, using the excuse that Nixon ordered the break-in of Democratic Party HQ to retrieve documents that proved the support of an illegal war and MIC subterfuge in D.C
      And the J3w Henry Kissinger was always operating behind the scenes throughout America’s wars…!

      • Clever analysis wrap up of Watergate.
        It doesn’t matter which side of the two a^se cheeks, blue or red, gets out of line, thej got it covered with bribery, blackmail or murder.

  1. Hegseth is a psychopath pumped-up on testosterone in a manosphere of his own warped creation!
    In the field of conflict and battle, this is the type of ‘leader’ that gets his people killed with no remorse.
    Then, when the war ends, they go off and get tattoos commemorating their ‘battle(s)’ which have ultimately failed due to their incompetence!
    https://www.openbible.info/topics/tattoos_and_body_piercings

  2. The irony, Trump surrounded by Jesus Killers, bringing in the return of Jesus, hah, nope, bringing in their version of Lucifer, on 5787 being 2nd October 2027, according to their Rabbid REDACTED, aka Ashkenazi Goyim. Ain’t happening, PS A new Crusade to the Holy Land needed now to remove the Ashkenazi Goyim.

  3. A disgrace I would have thought to the memory of its service people who gave their lives, even if the cause is a vile one. This is a US administration with no sense of honour whatsoever or respect for its own.

    • @ Globalistssuck
      “This is a US administration with no sense of honour whatsoever or respect for its own.”

      But tell me when did the US administration ever had a sense of honour whatsoever or respect for its own ??
      Vietnam ? Afghanistan ? Irak ? etc.
      considering how veterans are treated.
      It is only getting worse

      • U both correct.
        It all revolves around the core, which is the financial behemoth that has usurped many generations.
        Following is beside the article, but if it’s of interest, it all started (in the US) with bankers pushing Central Banking in the 19th and 20th centuries.
        The most significant early opposition the the jewish banking cartel was
        president Andrew Jackson’s “Bank War” against the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson, a Democrat, viewed the bank as a “monstrous” institution that represented elite privilege and a threat to democracy. He believed it concentrated too much power
        in the hands of a few wealthy financiers at the expense of ordinary farmers and workers.
        Despite the bank’s charter having years remaining, Jackson vetoed its recharter in 1832 and removed federal deposits, effectively destroying it by 1836.
        Then there was the formation of the Federal Reserve 1913, to which I can highly recomend the book “The Creature from Jekyll Island”.
        One other significat ruse was the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act (1930s).
        In response to the Great Depression and public outrage over perceived Wall Street corruption (exposed by the Pecora Hearings), the act was designed to separate commercial banking from investment banking to protect depositors. While President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress supported the act as a necessary reform, it faced strong opposition from the banksters.
        Thej got thejr will in 1999 when Cliton repealed The Glass-Steagall Act by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. From there it was a downward spiral into financial petro-dollar global armageddon which is collapsing as we speak,

    • 40% of the homeless living in tents are Veterans, and 30% of those have Service-Connected Disabilities for which their claims are indefinitely delayed…that is, until a law firm agrees to take the cases of disenfranchised veterans..
      https://cck-law.com/contact-us/
      https://cck-law.com/newsletter/
      Amazing how the ‘finders, minders & recruiters’ are now going street to street, camp to camp asking them to re-join the U.S. Military regime, and have even raised the recruitment age to the lower 40’s now. Guess the U.S. realises that there will be heavy casualties, and besides- they will waive the disabilities so that those who are disabled from previous military service can re-enter the military, and then get blown away where the U.S. Government won’t have to pay out VA Compensation, Social Security, or any other monthly cash benefit for being disabled!!!
      During the ‘Nam, that maximum age for military service recruitment was 27..!
      Check out the below for how we were treated, and why some of us went bush or pursued a solitary lifestyle upon returning from the ‘Nam…
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87Rk86d2X0
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6roGKfJ8s
      And yet…the U.S.never learns or changes due to Zionist control of the MIC..!

  4. Go online and read the stories of how Trump and his lawyers screwed over small businesses, tradesmen who did work at his properties and he screws them over by not paying and you wonder how a liar cam ever get to hold the levers of power.

    • My wife’s father was a tradie in Christchurch, and ALWAYS had problems getting payment out of those who lived in Merivale, Fendalton, and later Northwood, as many are class-conscience with the attitude of ‘How dare you knock on the main door! We use the backdoor for all tradies!”
      Noteworthy is that many people like those described above are wealthy, and now we know how they got there!
      A disproportionate amount of those living in those areas are also what we term as ‘Quiet J3w$’ who have been in a triad power struggle with the Catholics and the Anglicans! Oh.. did I also mention Freemasonry???
      Still, getting them to pay-up is difficult, and the J3w$ in those areas are especially toxic with Talmudic rancor towards the Goyim / Gentile tradies that they hire for their projects, as the Talmud states that J3w$ can with-hold payments from Goy Gentiles.
      It got even more weird after the quakes, when many repairs were being needed, but very few offering to pay for the same using the excuse that “the insurance money should be coming thru any day now, and we’ll pay you when we get it.”
      They got the settlements, but never seemed to pay those who repaired their homes…! Again, many were the small tatters of Christchurch who employed the Goyim, and demanded that their employees work thru Christmas, Easter, etc as they do not acknowledge Jesus Christ, except in discussions where the murder of Christ comes into play!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6DQt2aGI0
      One small hatter refused to pay my father-in-law for a masonry fence that he put up on Merivale Avenue.
      When the Zionist customer still hadn’t paid after 90 days, my in-law went over to the property that owed the money, and used his Ford Tractor to tear down his work for non-payment.
      Another time involved a swimming pool that had back-hoe claws gouged into the sides, ruining the pool for non-payment.
      The various arrogant entitled upper class snobs who suffer from the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and probably the Peter Principle as well never seem to pay their debts to their perceived ‘underlings’ who have to ‘use the back door for tradies’. They feel that they don’t have to and that the tradies are their chattel to be exploited, f@#ked-with, and never paid on time, IF AT ALL!
      I’ll take a bach with a hand pump over the sink, or artesian water with a septic system anyday over living in Snobbyville with their Homeowners Associations, covenants, and neighbourhood nosiness and harassment in the event you stand-up to these monsters, and they get taken aback!

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