[infowarrior]

at the Air Force Academy they tought us in POW training to say such if it meant the difference between life and death...I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt for the moment...

??? When did the US armed forces start taking *that* approach? That's completely the *opposite* of what I was taught in SERE in 1973, and afterwards by the Army.

Has the armed forces stopped using The US Fighting Man's Code?

the infowarrior

[muawiyah]

Telling lies to the enemy has always been allowed. Since the Nam they've changed their standards on participation in propaganda for/with the enemy.

Since everybody in the world knows that almost everybody can be coerced into saying anything, no one believes propaganda films.

Let me amend that ~ we have some Freepers who believe propaganda films and the New York Times and CBS. I don't.

[Armigerous]

....can't speak for the other services but USAFA adapted this policy in the late 60's after it was learned that
some captive pilots were being executed in North Viet Nam as a result of saying nothing...it was understood that any statements made under duress under such circumstances were invalid and disavowable