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RESISTANCE INTERROGATION [1 record]

Record 1 2007-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Training
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
DEF

[A] name for a set of techniques taught to UK [United Kingdom], USA and other NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organisation] soldiers ostensibly to help them, after capture by the enemy, to resist interrogation techniques such as humiliation and torture.

OBS

The trainees undergo practices such as hooding, sleep deprivation, time disorientation, prolonged nakedness, sexual humiliation and deprivation of warmth, water and food.

OBS

resistance to interrogation; R2I: term and abbreviation officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
OBS

résistance à l'interrogation; RI : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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