next, professor lori bogle talked about the american soldiers taken prisoner during the korean war. professor bogle explained how the warring nations used prisoners to intimidate their enemies and described the effects of captivity and attempts by the enemy at political indoctrination.

naval academy professor lori bogle talked about the american soldiers taken prisoner during the korean war. including the effects of captivity. and attempts at political indoctrination. professor bogle explained how the warring nations used prisoners to intimidate their enemies and described the effects of captivity and attempts by the enemy at political indoctrination. the u.s. naval academy is in annapolis, maryland. this class is about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon, class. attention on deck. >> at ease. all right, last time we were talking about the korean war.

next, professor lori bogle talked about the american soldiers taken prisoner during the korean war. professor bogle explained how the warring nations used prisoners to intimidate their enemies and described the effects of captivity and attempts by the enemy at political indoctrination. the u.s. naval academy is in annapolis maryland. this class is about 50 minutes. afternoon, class. >> all right, last time we were talking about the korean war. you had a reading. author said -- >> to midi. >> timidity. that's interesting. we're not going to go over all of the errors that the authors went over, but do you agree with the author that the greatest error of the war was timidity? now, you know, it's a trick question. you're going to get in trouble. right. >> i kind of agree with them in the fact that the timidity problem, if we weren't so timid in the war, it would have solved us making the errors of the landing and the other errors that he quoted, a lot of them wouldn't have happened. >> okay, so why are we so, quote, timid? right? >> i think the author's reasoning is we were afraid that