An entirely different kind of Moran..

[Fumesucker]

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200506/budiansky

A classic text on interrogating enemy captives offers a counterintuitive lesson on the best way to get information

by Stephen Budiansky

Truth Extraction

Six months before the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison broke into public view, a small and fairly obscure private association of United States Marine Corps members posted on its Web site a document on how to get enemy POWs to talk.

The document described a situation very similar to the one the United States faces in the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan: a fanatical and implacable enemy, intense pressure to achieve quick results, a brutal war in which the old rules no longer seem to apply.

Marine Major Sherwood F. Moran, the report's author, noted that despite the complexities and difficulties of dealing with an enemy from such a hostile and alien culture, some American interrogators consistently managed to extract useful information from prisoners. The successful interrogators all had one thing in common in the way they approached their subjects. They were nice to them.

Much more at the link:

Edited for speling...

[AllentownJake]

1. Yes the Defense Dept figured that out in WWII

[drm604]

2. Excellent article. Thank you for posting this. K&R

What's it's saying has seemed obvious to me but then I'm just a flaming bleeding heart liberal.

[Beam Me Up]

3. Not so good for getting false confessions or information to be used as propaganda, though. n/t

[leveymg]

4. And, if they know something you might want them to forget , it doesn't cause amnesia. n/t

[druidity33]

5. wish there was a link

to the whole text of Moran's letter(s).

There wasn't one in the article, just excerpted passages.


:shrug:

[never cry wolf]

8. Here you go

Link to a pdf copy, google is my friend.

http://www.w-z.com/articles/article023.pdf

[Fumesucker]

9. Thanks for that...

A very interesting read indeed.

[Bandit]

6. That would go against a very core belief of Republicans

"It is better to be feared than to be loved".

[Historic NY]

7. I alway said you can get more with a cigarette & coffee....

good cop vs bad cop scenario.