{"id":1549,"date":"2007-10-30T06:03:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T06:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-10-30T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:01:51","slug":"seal_on_waterbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"A SERE Instructor on Waterboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Update: apologies to writer Malcom Nance, who I carelessly misrepresented as a SEAL.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Over at the Small Wars Journal, Malcom Nance <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/waterboarding-is-torture-perio\/\" target=\"browser\">talks about waterboarding and torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked &#8211; indirectly &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/003902.php\" target=\"browser\">about it before<\/a>, and cited John Boyd, who made the basic point perfectly clearly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Observations Related To Moral Conflict<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nNo fixed recipes for organization, communications, tactics, leadership, etc.<\/p>\n<p>\nWide freedom for subordinates to exercise imagination and initiative &#8211; yet harmonize within intent of superior commanders.<\/p>\n<p>\nHeavy reliance upon moral (human values) instead of material superiority as basis for cohesion and ultimate success.<\/p>\n<p>\nCommanders must create a bond and breadth of experience based upon trust &#8211; not mistrust &#8211; for cohesion.<br \/>\n(slide 118)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to say about this in the next few days. Amazingly, I think I can tie TNR into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boyd and Waterboarding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}