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Re: Military Interrogation [OT]

From: laserlight <laserlight@m...>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:12:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Military Interrogation [OT]

> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Niall Gilsenan wrote:
> > I wonder how little you would actually tell your troops with
interrogation
> > techniques this effective.	Only very high ranks would know the
actual
goal
> > of an operation.   Bad for morale and co-ordination.
> 
> whilst this could be bad for morale, mightn't it actually be good for
> coordination? if 1st company is fighting some way from 3rd company,
and
> you need to redeploy 3rd company, wouldn't it help if 1st company
didn't
> know where 3rd company were supposed to be and so wouldn't be
surprised
> when they found they weren' there?

They wouldn't know not to shoot into that area.  Friendly fire is more
irritating than enemy fire.

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