Word: biderman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the U.S. military has traditionally stressed stoical resistance and ideological conviction as the best defense against Communist brainwashing, others have begun to take a different approach. Social Scientist Albert Biderman, for example, thinks that the typical serviceman's lack of ideology may be his strongest defense. The P.O.W. who "plays it cool," who makes superficial compromises without giving too much away, is sometimes the toughest to crack. Often those who resist most strenuously ultimately break down most completely...
March to Calumny, by Albert Biderman. Examining the behavior of captured G.I.s in Korea, a sociologist corrects the widespread impression that they were more easily brainwashed than other troops...
Readers will find Albert Biderman's book an attack on In Every War But One, one of mine on the same subject published four years ago. While the conduct of American prisoners in Korea may remain a controversial subject for years, the following background, I believe...
...Biderman, a sociologist, was retained by the Air Force some ten years back to assess experiences of its 235 returned Korean war prisoners, including those who had confessed to bacteriological warfare. Biderman's findings greatly influenced the Air Force prisoner stand, then in direct opposition to the Army's. A king-sized deadlock resulted, centering essentially on what a service should demand of its men-in other words, the ideology of duty. Air Force wished less, Army more, demands. There was name calling and heat. Obviously, one service could not have one standard, a second another. After months...
...plain that the Code forced a decision on which side was right in the prisoner wrangle. It was a clear decision. Your readers should know, I think, that before the most expert, informed, and supposedly impartial body that the government could muster, the views of Biderman and those who supported them...