Super Soldier
John Knefel, Inverse: How the Pentagon Is Building the 'Enhanced' Super Soldiers of Tomorrow
The world's militaries are in a race to expand human thresholds for pain and cognition. The U.S. is no exception.
In wide-ranging remarks delivered last month, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work suggested that the United States’ enemies are working on ways to develop super soldiers reminiscent of Captain America. “Now our adversaries, quite frankly, are pursuing enhanced human operations, and it scares the crap out of us, really,” Work said, according to FTAlphaville. “We’re going to have to have a big, big decision on whether or not we are comfortable with going that way.”
He didn’t elaborate on what he meant by “enhanced human operations,” but the phrase refers to any sort of biologically altered soldier with capabilities superior to a normal person. Notably, Work didn’t close the door on that type of research and development, he just said it would be a profound question the military had to ask.
No doubt it would be, but it’s more than a little disingenuous for Work to pretend that the United States hasn’t looked into exactly this topic in its recent history. Or, in fact, that they’re not researching it right now.
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Update #1: The government’s top scientists have a plan to make military cyborgs (Tech Insider)
Update #2: The US military is working on tech that could turn soldiers into cyborgs (Science Alert)
WNU Editor: The Pentagon is not the only one who is looking for ways to "enhance" their soldiers .... Russia and China Have Started Enhancing Humans for Battle (Top Secret Writers).
2 comments:
"Enhanced human operations" means the use of prosthetics that could be commanded directly by the human brain.
And possibly over ridden by superior technology.
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