• @seejur@lemmy.world
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    154 months ago

    Including wounded is the official definition of lost, always been. No need to call propaganda, it simply how is defined.

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        4 months ago

        Lost means “not able to fight”. If they lose a leg, they might be alive, but not very useful in the battlefield. Therefore the soldier, not the human, is lost.

        Most of it it’s because in military setting, those two are equivalent, sine the only thing they care is about how many abled bodies they have available for the meat grinder.