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 ...

Word came yesterday that House Democrats are still seeking more once-classified documents about the Bush Administration’s harsh interrogation program–in this case, the May 2005 memo by a State ...

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 ...

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 ...

SERE is the military acronym for Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape. SERE provides a peculiar corpus of life long skill sets for specialized military personnel [SEALS, pilots, Aircrewmen, special ...

Newly released notes from one of the architects of the Bush-Cheney torture program have shown that the scale and ambition of the torture camps at Gitmo and elsewhere might have been greater than we ...

The hearing is the committee's second on the origins of the Pentagon's harsh interrogation program. The review fits into a broader picture of the government's handling of detainees, which includes FBI ...

“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.