You're an advance element troop that has been captured just prior to D-day 1941. You know the attack will occur some time within the next few days. The SS tortures you - if you divulge the information it could mean the deaths of tens of thousand of allied lives, or even the failure of the invasion.

Do you give in - because of the pain? Or, swallow it as the true patriot you are?



Then again, you are a terrorist that knows the plan to blow a nuclear plan or chemical factory, drive a freightor loaded with "spent" nuclear fuel into a port with explosives, knows the where abouts of Osama (3 hours ago), etc.

What pain can you maintain? And then, what BS will you create to redirect the attention from your mates?

Eisenhower created the Military Code of Conduct, after the Korean conflict (war for some). He did so because of the conduct of most of the soldiers that had been captured by the Chinese. See, the China guys started out with straight torture - but, what they found out is --- if you give a crumb to someone, a bit of bread for informing on their comrade - but don't harm the comrad? Well, what you get is cooperation. It may not be genuis - but it is devisive. [The men that were POWs when put on a room (library, pool tables, etc) just sat there - no one conversed, no one played pool - they might read, but mostly ... they just sat.]

How much pain can you take to keep a secret? Long enough to justify Dubya's call for torture?