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U.S. Military Position on Body Counts NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on an apparent shift in U.S. policy towards estimating the number of enemies killed or wounded in combat. Recent comments from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other military officials have broken with the custom of withholding body counts. Inskeep also speaks with Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the Pentagon's estimate policy over the years.

U.S. Military Position on Body Counts

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NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on an apparent shift in U.S. policy towards estimating the number of enemies killed or wounded in combat. Recent comments from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other military officials have broken with the custom of withholding body counts. Inskeep also speaks with Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the Pentagon's estimate policy over the years.