The Pentagon’s public-facing casualty database has not been updated in more than a day after its number of wounded and killed in the Iran war abruptly shifted and continues to undercount the number of the conflict’s casualties, with Defense Department officials attributing the discrepancies to a technical snafu.
The discrepancy raises questions about whether the Pentagon’s underlying systems for tracking casualties across military operations may have been impacted by the Trump administration’s previous statements that Operation Epic Fury, which was used as the namesake for the Iran war, had ended in May.
The U.S. airstrikes targeting Iran since that date are being
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