As far back as World War II, the Soviets had been experimenting with the idea of creating super-soldiers by using hypothetical inter-specific breeding processes to unite the genes of humans and chimpanzees. The resulting “humanzees” would provide field-ready super-humans that were stronger than the average man, and likely less susceptible to discomfort from pain, temperature, or other environmental stimuli, as well as the dissatisfaction from the quality of food they were given.
As time passes, some things do indeed change… but old ideas tend to die hard. Thus, while interbreeding humans with monkeys to create a hybrid may not (or, for all we know, may still) be an objective, one thing is certainly clear: the utilization of technology to “breed” different varieties of super-soldiers remains a reality. And within the next few years, some agencies are already talking about implementing this sort of advanced science on the battlefield.
A report featured in the British Daily Mail Online discussed the Pentagon’s plans for designing functional “telepathy” that would allow soldiers on the battlefield to communicate using keywords and phrases in combat. This, of course, would allow for a variety of benefits that include less equipment needed in the field, as well as a better ability to contain secret command communications (whereas technology like radio and internet transmissions can be spied on more easily).
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