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by Greater Themis » Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:46 am
by Allanea » Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:10 pm
by Greater Themis » Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:15 pm
Allanea wrote:Well I think I have mentioned the preventative aspect a bit in my post, but this is a very good and positive comment. Would you approve if I link to it from the bibliography section?
by New Aeyariss » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:05 am
- I mention this because Allanea mentioned it: pharmacological enhancement. This really is a double-edged sword, that needs using with far too much caution in this day and age to make it truly viable. But this is NS, eh?
Inyourfaceistan wrote:You didn't know that Cusc is actually a 4-armed cyborg genius commander and skillful warrior created in secret by a cabal of rich capitalist financiers built to lead and army of drones and other renegades against and overbearing socialist regime?
Psalms 144:1 wrote:Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.
by Allanea » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:12 am
New Aeyariss wrote:- I mention this because Allanea mentioned it: pharmacological enhancement. This really is a double-edged sword, that needs using with far too much caution in this day and age to make it truly viable. But this is NS, eh?
I know that ZOMO (motorized reserves of citizen's militia, anti-riot thugs of Polish People's Republic) were given various medical drugs to increase aggression before they were sent against dissidents & protests.
by Thoricia » Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:50 am
Ponderosa wrote:I kick you in the face, because I'm angry that I actually wrote out a creative response to the post above, only to find out that you ruined it.
by Allanea » Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:33 am
Thoricia wrote:Excellent work Allanea, I may try working this into FanT and FT settings as well, should be interesting
by Kazarogkai » Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:46 am
by Allanea » Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:05 am
by Hyggemata » Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:00 pm
Conservative logic: every slope is a slippery slope.
Liberal logic: climb every mountain; ford every stream.
Washington Resistance Army wrote:Fuck the common good
by Kazarogkai » Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:41 pm
Allanea wrote:This is a bit of a chicken and egg question.
Or rather it depends on definition.
Do 'signals troops' include in 'Sustainment' (In this document I have not included them, and US doctrine excludes them)?
What about the cooks at your HQ?
WHat about the S4 officer, is he 'sustainment'?
This sort of thing is why it's hard to define this stuff.
by Kazarogkai » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:08 pm
Allanea wrote:Why are there four armorers?
by Greater Themis » Wed Dec 14, 2016 1:25 am
New Aeyariss wrote:- I mention this because Allanea mentioned it: pharmacological enhancement. This really is a double-edged sword, that needs using with far too much caution in this day and age to make it truly viable. But this is NS, eh?
I know that ZOMO (motorized reserves of citizen's militia, anti-riot thugs of Polish People's Republic) were given various medical drugs to increase aggression before they were sent against dissidents & protests.
by Allanea » Wed Dec 14, 2016 2:32 am
by Greater Themis » Wed Dec 14, 2016 4:20 am
Allanea wrote:Amphetamines are actually a broad family of drugs as you well know.
It's worth noting they were used extensively in Soviet industry (methcatinone, a member of the family, was used in Soviet factory drinking water in the 1930s), as well as by truck drivers and others out to the 1970s. There's lots of people who use amphetamine-family drugs either illegally or semi-legally to this day with varied effects. From my reading I understand at least some of the effects are overstated by the media.
Several things are relevant here.
1. Purity is important. Amphetamines are used by the Air Force in a controlled setting and that's entirely different from being just randomly issued.
2. Risk-taking is not necessarily bad. If, say, you can make troops 5% less likely to flee during close combat or 5% more likely to engage in it that's different than them 'running like madmen through the minefield'. Lots of military engagements depend on soldiers being willing to do things that are short-term risky or at least seem risk in favor of long-term survival. (Say, assaulting into the fire).
3.The extent of the risk is important. If, say, your nation is facing a life-or-death struggle, or if your outpost is about to be overrun by 10,000 Bigtopian guerrillas, you might want to get hopped up on meth and throw yourself into the final battle.
by Allanea » Wed Dec 14, 2016 4:26 am
by Allanea » Wed Dec 14, 2016 4:26 am
by Rich and Corporations » Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:32 am
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by Allanea » Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:35 am
Rich and Corporations wrote:nothing more important than getting there the fastest with the mostest
by Greater Themis » Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:40 am
Allanea wrote:Also, ADD is hardly niche.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... tal-health
This suggests that lots of kids are being medicated for it, but I am not sure whether 'a million prescriptions per year' is really niche.
I actually have a book in my possession that contains medical information about amphetamines...
This one.
I'll look through what it says and get back to you, if you are interested.
That's strange because I've read that modafinil is almost entirely safe. But then I'm not a doctor and everything I've read includes publications in the non-specialist press.
The chief use of enhancement drugs seems to be, historically, in the context of situations where soldiers are expected to operate for unusual amounts of hours without rest, i.e. in unusually heavy fighting.
by Morrdh » Wed Dec 14, 2016 6:16 am
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