Saturday, Jun 06th
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The Pentagon has revised a directive on detainee interrogations to specifically prohibit the use of techniques developed for a pilot survival training program from Chinese torture methods, officials said Wednesday.
Critics charge that the so-called SERE techniques served as the basis for coercive interrogation practices that spread after the September 11 attacks to military detention centers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq.
 The Department of Defense moved this week to dramatically reduce the number of recognized religions, faiths... |
 The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members... | ||
 The House Armed Services Committee adopted a provision for the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)... |
 The US military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on... |
