Scott Ritchey wrote:
My training was to resist as long as possible by any means possible and that
was my plan. But then I've never been a POW, although I;\'ve known and
worked with a few.
In Heinlein's novel Friday, the title character was a top secret courier.
She got captured early on, when she returned to home base and found it under
enemy control. She sang like a canary, explaining to the readers that it was in
her standing orders from her boss. Said that few could resist torture, and only
God could resist drugs, so what's the point in getting your body messed up in
the process just to save your ego?
In actual wartime, if you really know something that will hurt your side when it
gets out, it might be important to delay the release of what you know while your
side works to mitigate the damage after they realize you were captured.
Mitch.
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