While the armies do not yet consist of android robots and cyborgs without feelings and emotions, the Pentagon is developing medical drug technology that affects the brain and with which a soldier can be turned into an immoral "death machine" that does not have fear, conscience and unquestioningly carrying out all orders
According to Wired, the Pentagon pays $ 11 million annually to three research institutions that are working on the subject and developing drugs based on D-Cycloserine (DCS).
Of course, the military carefully conceals the true purpose of these studies, successfully covering them up with the search for treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which are prone to military personnel who have been in difficult situations during combat. It is expected that the person affected by the disorder will be injected with an anxiety suppressant drug and will be shown pictures of events similar to the events that caused the disorder. As a result, the memories that cause the upset will be replaced by other memories associated with less emotion and fear. And oddly enough, this method works quite often.
It's no secret that the US military is already giving servicemen in "hot spots" various antidepressants, sleeping pills and pain relievers that allow people to withstand constant stress, incredible mental and physical stress. Without such medical care, some soldiers would eventually lose their ability to participate in hostilities.
Now it is the turn of a completely new class of drugs, which can be conditionally classified as drugs. These drugs alone do not make people "happy" like marijuana and ecstasy, they make them more thoughtless, fearless and therefore more manageable. Of course, questions of the morality of using such drugs are under a big question mark, but when did the military pay attention to such "trifles and obstacles"? And you and I should think hard, do we want to see an army of servicemen, reminiscent of the protagonist of the movie "Soldier", which was so wonderfully played in his time by Kurt Russell?