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Those abilities from the article are useless for a soldier.

You don't feel much stress shooting the enemy. You feel a lot of stress when the enemy shoots back, especially the artillery. So you get less stress when your artillery has more range, because you don't get shot at.

Using painkillers is just ignoring the problems with your health. If you want to stay in the army for more than a year, go to the doctor and get a proper treatment.

The food is not a problem, we got ten thousand variations of canned meat.

The most pressing problem for soldiers in the field is the lack of hygiene. If you can shower once per month without getting sick, you'll make a better soldier.

It'd also help if you're short and can carry heavy stuff.

So, I imagine actual super-soldiers to be muscly gypsy dwarves who eat a lot and complain when they get health issues.

Source: has been in the army.

This shit is a silly fantasy:

a slide behind her showed off a “soldier of the future” whose body is “flooded with pain-numbing stimulants” and has the “ability to regrow limbs & quickly heal wounds like a lizard.”

Next to this was a quote that referenced Robocop. “Enhanced soldiers would be reduced to bionic men, who run fast, do not need to sleep, eat and drink very little, and can fight all the time. A new species is born: Homo robocopus,”

The whole thing is full of pop culture references:

McKinely, the non-invasive brain stimulation expert, said that The Matrix was starting to become real. Think of the iconic scene where Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, is instantly uploaded with proficiency in kung fu.

It's like a bunch of teenagers writing a sci-fi fanfic. Too many movies and video games, not enough actual science and technology. They literally have a picture of Master Chief.

A good deal of the conversation revolved around the ethical and legal boundaries of creating super soldiers.

Because that's all you can talk about when none of this has any practical application.

Sounds entirely reasonable, and definitely has zero possibility of going horribly horribly wrong.

"At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"

Someone has been reading too many Warhammer 40k novels.

Such a last-century worldview. Biological soldiers? That's just more meat to feed.

The future is in semi-autonomous, semi-intelligent "AI" driven drones which you can program with a vague general mission and they can improvise the rest.

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Is Jean-Claude Van Damme going to be one of them?