From:	flash119is@*****.com (Opher Lubzens)
Subject:	Aggresion cyberware
Date:	Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0700 (PDT)

--- "mattness@**.pl" <mattness@**.pl> wrote:
>
> Idea from The Forever War novel by Joe Haldeman.
> Short entry, for those who don't know the comic /
> book.
> Before landing, recruits obtain strong dose of drugs
> - which change them
> in furious berserkers (idea of Army: change
> ordinary, normal Joe into
> death squat).
>
> Fearless warior is dream of any general.
> Why not a cyber/bioware which will remove soldiers
> fears and doubts?
>
> I don't think that mix of adrenaline pump / trauma
> damper will do the
> work...
> Maybe with some control chip and strong testosterone
> injector.


Define fearlessness.If you mean cyberware that makes
troops into bloodthirsty berserkers, and it looks like
what you are proposing is directed at exactly that,
then I have to remind you that a bloodthirsty
berserker isn't likely to be a good
soldier.Organization is a huge force multiplier,
especially in combat situations, and an organized
force is much more likely to win(or at least retreat
in good order) then a non-organized one under the same
conditions.The only place such cyberware might help is
in raw infantry recruits thrown straight into combat
who don't have a hope of possessing the proper
organization, and have to partially compensate by raw
aggression- and the cost of cyberware is too high to
put in people you send into the meat grinder, probably
losing at least half(if nor all) of them in combat.

I'm reminded of a scene from a historical novel I
read(whose name escapes me): Scots squaring off
against English, late 18th century,about same no. of
men on each side.The Scot tactic?CHARGE!full blown,
all out infantry charge with claymores.The English
response?Canons firing grapeshot, and a seemingly
strange training method- each soldier thrusts his
bayonet not forward(against the opponent facing him)
but right, protecting the soldier on his right
flank.The result: The Scottish army devestated,
survivors shipped to the New World in prison ships,
and an English control of Scotland to this very day.




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