Super Soldiers By 2030?

Coalition force members conduct a mission brief and prepare to patrol Afghanistan's Farah province, Dec. 15, 2012. The coalition forces conducting the presence patrol are deployed to train and mentor Afghan national security forces in their area. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau

The Army Hopes To Have 'Physically Enhanced' Super Troops By 2030 -- National Security: Foreign Policy

While the military may seem to be embracing killer robots from the skies and seas, some futurists in the U.S. Army aren't so sure that there will be platoons of armed robots guarding the perimeters of U.S. combat bases. Instead, enemies of the United States may find themselves squaring off against "superempowered" or "enhanced" troops.

As the need for soldiers with greater levels of technological sophistication and brainpower increases, the Army may try to recruit troops with the promises of turning them into the "Lance Armstrong, if you will, of a soldier," said Col. Kevin Felix, chief of the Future Warfare Division at the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, during a Dec. 14 interview. Felix was discussing one of the main themes to emerge from the Army's Strategic Trends Seminar that took place last week in Virginia: super soldiers.

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