In past wars, captured American pilots were subjected to extreme hardship and used for propaganda purposes. Today, the US Air ...

In combat, all troops face a risk of being captured, and the rules regarding their treatment while in captivity are often ignored. The US military has a courses of varying complexity and intensity to ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military agency that trains troops to resist and survive torture offered crucial help in developing harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA, according to a Senate report to ...

The Iraqi prisoner had valuable intelligence, U.S. special forces believed, and they desperately wanted it. They demanded that expert American military trainers teach them the same types of abusive ...

Mr. MIKE RITZ (Senior Interrogation Instructor, Team Delta): Right. I was attached to the SERE school in the U.S. Army. And then in 1997, I started my own private company that was a simulated version ...

“SERE [Survival Evasion Resistance Escape] was the best training I’ve had. It prepared me for marriage.” — Chuck Kasinger, U.S. Navy officer [ret], War Criminal No. 48, and Bruce Willis’ stunt-double.

Opponents of last week’s release of memos detailing CIA interrogation techniques argue that they will provide enemies of the United States with a training manual to prepare their operatives for ...