I see the British aren't be to outdone - UK troops in Iraqi torture probe

But I note that the people involved have been sure to try to stay unidentifiable - in contrast to the US version. (That could seem to suggest that the US lot were assuming that what they were up to was OK with the authorities, but the British weren't. But there could be other reasons for that difference.)

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Chief Chaos's comments about how training soldiers to dehumanise the enemy being bloody stupid, because it makes them underestimate them, makes a lot of sense. But I think dehumisation is built into war, it doesn't need training - the aim of training should be to counter that kind of thinking, which is liable to get you killed.