Are you truly broken if your captor does not know it?
YOU know it. It's enough.
Hmmm... Let me direct you to a little history. In 1982, 2000 Argentine conscript infantrymen and aircraft ground crew fought and beat a force of elite British paratroopers and commando artillery.
Does this change the fact that they then promptly surrendered the town of Goose Green to their beaten foe, notwithstanding that if they didn't, all that would happen was that the brits would go back to San Carlos and leave Goose Green alone for the rest of the Falklands War?
I think not.
Your trouble is that you mistake maintaining your pride with achieving your objective.
Britain may have seen it's finest humbled by the scrapings from the bottom of the military barrel,
but they still took the objective!It's called,
'Focusing on the greater goal.'In Picard's case, all that mattered was that he stuck to his guns. It matters not that the victory was pyrrhic. A pyrrhic victory is still victory so long as your opponent cannot counter attack before you have a chance to recover.
Picard's thoughts are naturally going to be negative, that's why he needs to see a therapist, but even if he was on the verge of breaking, he did not. He did not reveal any information, nor let on that he was about to crack.
Objective achieved, as in The Battle Of Goose Green, by simply allowing your enemy to believe that they have lost.
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