The UK [ covered up massive losses in World War I with censorship and lies. ](
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/27/first-world-war-state-press-reporting ) These losses were [ due to incompetent generals ](
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/10-5 ) who lacked the moral courage to a plan when it had clearly gone wrong. With honest reporting, perhaps they would have been sacked.
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