> What happened to these techniques that the US allegedly adopted after WW2? What happened was the war against reason. Having empirical knowledge about what w

> What happened to these techniques that the US allegedly adopted after WW2? What happened was the war against reason. Having empirical knowledge about what works didn't count for squat with the people who were making those appointments. It might even have been a negative. The people who got ahead were the ones who could project the "real American tough guy" image, no matter how fake it was or what obvious psychopathic tendencies came attached to it. Now for the really bad news. The same kind of people (if not worse) are in charge again, and they're focused on domestic "threats" instead of international ones.