[ELI5] How do the CIA / special forces prepare their agents / soldiers for being kidnapped and tortured?

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In films and books, there is a lot of mention of the fact that CIA operatives and special forces soldiers are trained to endure torture. How exactly is this done and what does it consist of?

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Sere school. Basically, you go through a series of survival and evasion training culminating in a midterm exam of “Go hide in the woods until you’re caught or we end the test”

This is in the frozen north (everyone I have heard go to this school said it was during winter) or somewhere on the west coast

Then, when that’s over, they put you in a simulated POW camp with actual real life torture. They have rules, and they aren’t typically allowed to talk about specific forms of torture, but from what I have found researching the topic they will beat you with open hands, toss you against walls, confine you to too small cages for sleeping, solitary confinement, constant loud and piercing noise so you can’t sleep, and other more advanced methods like sweet talking and promising relief if you just tell them what they want to know

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