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From Discover Technology:
In 2002, Dr Joseph Bielitzki, chair of DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, announced a grand program to improve soldiers, with the slogan "Be all that you can be, and a lot more." His targets: sleep, fatigue, pain, and blood loss. Other projects studied psychological stress, memory, and learning . . . The words on everybody's lips were "human enhancement," the use of science and technology to upgrade the human body and mind . . . According to military futurists, the then-new War on Terror required a new type of soldier, independent, fast and more lethal than ever before.
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