There is an old saying 'it all comes out in the wash'.
We used radio intercepts to confirm the results of our actions into Mozambique and Zambia. We used to get accurate casualty figures that way.
Accurate post combat reporting is very difficult and I often recall when my sergeant and I had beers with the troopies after a good days work. Every time when we left he would, 'I don't know about you, sir, but in the contact I was in we only killed 20 gooks, but it seems the one our troopies were in they killed over a hundred.' Troopies will be troopies, they are like fishermen.
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