The conscious suppression of “conscience” also led logically to another step in the escalation of brutality, the significance of which will be seen in the following chapter. It inclines the soldier, says Pierre-Henri Simon, towards a confusion in his mind between “licit violence and culpable brutality. It is thus that one arrives at this monstrosity: the practice of torture by the military.”

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 525