Five of the main tactics in the SERE program to render detainees or others being interrogated as amenable to yielding information and confessions are: • Sexual humiliation and degradation • Humiliation based on religious and cultural practices • Sleep deprivation • Sensory deprivation and sensory overload • Physical torment to achieve the psychological advantages of fear and anxiety, such as “water-boarding,” or hypothermia (exposure to freezing temperatures)
