There are plans to blunt the soldiers’ brains. A forty-million-dollar grant has been handed out to develop memory-controlling implants. This may allow any remaining keenly edged emotional acumen to be tampered with. The aim is to delete the soldiers’ empathy genes so that not only do they show no mercy, but are also devoid of fear. A disturbing, dark side-sounding “Human Assisted Neural Devices (HAND) program” will control soldiers’ brains by a remote “joystick,” which operates from some far away control center.
