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Before there were countries or nations, there were warriors. These early warriors fought each other for survival but over time polities emerged and brought individual warriors into armies whose leadership applied force to their self-interest.

Over time leaders began to dream of armies of super warriors that could, without questions conquer all, to gain their political goals. These small armies battled each other with the victor consolidating vanquished spoils into countries. Early leaders of China, Japan, Persia, Greece, and Rome still dreamed of creating a supreme warrior race obedient only to them. In search of this goal children were drafted into a lifetime of training and warfare. Accomplished warriors were breed like cattle to achieve a super race.

In modern history the NAZI movement carried those dreams forward for a pure warrior race. They established breeding farms for their Nordic ideals and children were raised by the state. The Nazis failed, beaten by amateur citizen soldiers from around the world. America, established by citizen soldiers, provided most of the citizen muscle that defeated the evil Axis alliance but America had help from its own super warriors.

America’s super warriors however were comic book heroes who entered the war against the Axis even before its citizen soldiers. When WW2 began in Europe and Asia comic book super heroes were ready. In 1940 Captain America emerged to lead the fight against the Axis. Employing a weakling in chemical experiments for creation of an army of supermen the government created the ultimate super warrior, Captain America. Unfortunately the scientist who developed the magic formula died with its secret.

The Captain is fiction but in the 1950s the American military began secret drug experiments on real live American soldiers seeking to create super warriors possibly in the Captain America mold. These experiments eventually were exposed and the government dropped its program. Now over 50 years later the polmil is still dreaming of super warriors. This time possibly in the image of Ninjas who focused their minds and bodies to the accomplishment of impossible missions regardless of cost.

The Army intends to train over a million soldiers in the art of metal toughness through Warrior Mind Training (WMT). The highest levels of the military support mind-body programs to channel the soldiers’ energy to goals. The difficulty arises over who defines the channels and goals? It is possible that in the future mind controlled black clad soldiers will slink down dark American streets to accomplish mission in the interest of the polmil. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds for the military leadership has already sent soldiers into the streets on illegal missions. Congressional investigations in the 50s, 60s, and 70s uncovered some of these activities. The post 911 domestic, military operations have yet to be seen in the public light.

It is imperative that another public investigation begin before the polmil is able to field super warriors outside the control of a democratic society to terrorize that society.