http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/01/11/the-enhancements-super-soldiers-actually-need/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/01/11/the-enhancements-super-soldiers-actually-need/#comment-4136 Thomas Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:49:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=3622#comment-4136 What is such a super soldier able to think for himself decided that war was a stupid way of solving the problem in the first place? Stanislaw Lem wrote a story on that theme in "The Cyberiad". What is such a super soldier able to think for himself decided that war was a stupid way of solving the problem in the first place? Stanislaw Lem wrote a story on that theme in “The Cyberiad”.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/01/11/the-enhancements-super-soldiers-actually-need/#comment-4135 Brian Too Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:27:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=3622#comment-4135 Combat strongly selects for systems and policies that work and offer many options for improvement. For the insurgents they have the IED. The reason it's feared is that they are effective on many different levels. For the coalition forces the drones are perhaps their most successful innovation. The insurgents must hate those things with a passion. Combat strongly selects for systems and policies that work and offer many options for improvement. For the insurgents they have the IED. The reason it’s feared is that they are effective on many different levels. For the coalition forces the drones are perhaps their most successful innovation. The insurgents must hate those things with a passion.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/01/11/the-enhancements-super-soldiers-actually-need/#comment-4133 Terry Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:44:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=3622#comment-4133 That works for this 'war'. When we face another real enemy and not a job out policing the world, feel-good qualities won't be enough. That only lasts as long as we believe the modern paradigm to be the only one left. Of course, globalization may have cannibalized war so we may never face another real one also long as the current global world system stays upright. You never know. In that case, we may as well create a globally funded police force to handle this crap in third world countries. That works for this ‘war’. When we face another real enemy and not a job out policing the world, feel-good qualities won’t be enough. That only lasts as long as we believe the modern paradigm to be the only one left. Of course, globalization may have cannibalized war so we may never face another real one also long as the current global world system stays upright. You never know. In that case, we may as well create a globally funded police force to handle this crap in third world countries.

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