“I have zero problem with waterboarding and other enhanced methods. I personally would use wirecutters on fingers without hesitation.”
I was trained to take PWs and learned a few things about how they’re processed after initial in-processing. Also a little history on the subject (having done some instruction, too). Won’t go into it in depth much for security reasons, but our forefathers knew best. There are seemingly unrelated (to civilians) but serious consequences for torturing prisoners, and it doesn’t work well.
Psychological and seemingly benign situational methods work better. Same goes for escape tactics.
But for one of the consequences that can be mentioned here, soldiers don’t need goose chases started by know-it-all-civilians with false intel. Combat patrols often being probes for being intentionally ambushed for other good reasons, they are often costly in a real war.
We don’t need a monkey chorus of REMFs and civilians shouting for other wanna-be civilians to mess up what soldiers can accomplish.
Amen