if you'll read up a few posts, I made one about the american military and torture--we are no longer trained to only give out name, rank, and serial number.
We have the north vietnamese to thank for that. the goal now--if you're captured, survive. it's okay to spill secrets to live.
(this is all second hand though--relayed to my international affairs class by our professor, who had been in the US navy for some 20 odd years).