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ENHANCED SOLDIER

(Photo courtesy of Army News Service)

A soldier aims an XM-25 weapon system at Aberdeen Test Center, Md. It features an array of sights, sensors, and lasers housed in a target
acquisition fire control unit on top, an oversized magazine behind the trigger mechanism, and a short, ominous barrel wrapped by a
recoil-dampening sleeve.

Ethics and the
Enhanced Soldier of
the Near Future
Col. Dave Shunk, U.S. Air Force, Retired

We live in a world of rapidly advancing, revolutionary technologies that are not just reshaping our world and wars, but also
creating a host of ethical questions that must be dealt with. But in trying to answer them, we must also explore why exactly
it is so hard to have effective discussions about ethics, technology, and war in the first place?
—P.W. Singer
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