Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs,
implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of
war as we've understood them. If we can engineer a soldier who
can resist torture, would it still be wrong to torture this
person with the usual methods? Starvation and sleep deprivation
won't affect a super-soldier who doesn't need to sleep or eat.
Beatings and electric shocks won't break someone who can't feel
pain or fear like we do. This isn't a comic-book story, but
plausible scenarios based on actual military projects today. In
the next generation, our warfighters may be able to eat
grass,communicate telepathically,resist stress, climb walls like
a lizard, and much more. Impossible? We only need to look at
nature for proofs of concept. For instance, dolphins don't sleep
(or they'd drown); Alaskan sled-dogs can run for days without
rest or food; bats navigate with echolocation; and goats will
eat pretty much anything. Find out how they work, and maybe we
can replicate that in hum