Battles are likely to be redefined in the not-so-distant future with the advancement of neuroscience, even to the extent of producing guilt-free soldiers. The science of the brain will play a major part in the future of military warfare.

It is not unlikely to have a future where these are possible on the battlefield: ‘pharmacological land mines’ replacing bullets, scanners and other electronic devices that determine the brain activity of suspects and consequently hinder them from lying upon interrogation, and performance boosting drugs.

One of these future possibilities is the creation of guilt-free soldiers. This will be a time when soldiers who are already trained to regard the enemy as exactly just that will even go further as to feel no twitch of conscience when they kill. This will be a time of sheer killing machines, where ‘memories will no longer concern them morally.’

Just imagine thousands of Rambos that are more automaton than necessary. It is a fact, as it is, that soldier suicide is prevalent in the military. The future of warfare, as manipulated by neuroscience, will no longer have soldiers experiencing the slings and pangs of their outrageous fortune.

The shapers of this plan and strategy should consider one extremely important thing: soldiers end their battlefield career sometime. It can make one shudder in fear thinking of how these guilt-free soldiers might be once they resume civilian life.

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Via guardian.co.uk