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At first I'd like to point out, as it's not immediately obvious, that the SERE you reference was originally developed as a training program for soldiers to resist such types of "enhanced interrogation" or "torture" when it is done to them. It is not a training program on how to perform such tactics. Developed during the Korean War and extended to the Vietnam War, such tactics were used against our soldiers to torture fake confessions out of them in order to bolster their propaganda.

I'd call it torture, since from my general knowledge I think psychological torture is just as harmful if not more harmful than the standard run-of-the-mill physical torture. Calling it anything else to me is just trying to make it sound more benign so that it's easier to argue that it's ok, since "we're not talking about torture here, this is ok!"