I've seached on this web-site and I've read some topics, but none acctually confirms this answer: "Is there, or has there ever been, a super soldier program? Like during WWII uptill now? "
If so, could you give me some material so that I can read about it? Like books, trusty web-site's and so on. :-)

Yeah. We call them the SEALs.

I'm sure there's been work along the line of like Captain America, however, at the moment, I think it seems the military is pursuing a more Iron Man approach.

Super soldier programs, not super sailor programs.... There is an organization that is funded, and accepts rides from the Department of the Navy, that as an infantry unit (not army or soldiers) pretty much fits that description..... The government spends more money training and equipping one SEAL ,than on a platoon or two of 0311 Marines..... You can't get any more super than that, but they will kill you if you were to call one of them a soldier.

I would imagine that super soldier programs have existed for a long time...

The Spartans of Greece were akin to an entire race of super soldiers, so lets look at them...
They were supposedly of the bloodline of Hercules, a half god of Greek lore who possessed unnatural strength and endurance.
They weeded out the weak by casting any babies born imperfect over a tall cliffside.
They seperated them from their family at a young age, and forced them to live or die in the wilderness, forced them to kill. They erased any semblence of humanity or mercy from their minds, creating cold blooded killers.
For the spartan warrior, war and killing was all he knew. They were the best because they had no fear of death. This capacity was erased from their minds at a young age.

So to create a super soldier, you must first start with a crop of genetically enhanced males, carefully selecting from among them the best possible candidates and getting rid of the rest. They would have to grow up in a cold, heartless environment, possibly never knowing the meaning of family or compassion. Their curriculum would include a strict diet of mostly protein and endurance enhancing vitamins, lots of brainwashing and programming, ridding them of even the possibility of fear, doubt, or individuality, and fully aquainting them at very young ages with death, violence, and cruelty.
Once they got older, building upon their programmed foundation with advanced combat techniques would be easy, as discipline and unquestioning devotion to their superiors is already programmed into their brains. Perhaps they could even augment their physical abilities with technological implants or gear.

None of that sounds outside the realm of possibilty, does it? Most of what you'd need to create super soldiers is knowledge and technology thats been around for 50+ years.
Now its obviously not impossible, but how probable is it that super soldier programs have existed or do now?
The cost effectiveness would have to outweigh the cost of developing super soldiers for it to be a probable program. Obviously the cost of what I laid out above would be quite high, and results wouldnt be seen until the subjects were grown enough to be in battle, roughly 20 years after the programs inception. That would mean the financiers of such a venture would be without returns on their investments for quite some time, and even then the effectiveness of the program wouldnt be known until they were combat proven, which could end in a horrible failure translating to a complete waste of money, resources and time on the military's part.

What would be a more probable alternative would be if they covertly introduced a system of brainwashing, chemical/hormonal alteration, drugs, and other methods into a population of soldiers, without their knowledge, over a long period of time, taking note of the effects and perfecting the process until you have regular people who can unconsciously slip into "soldier mode" given the right circumstances. This of course would be helped by the and The problem with that is during the perfecting process the problems experienced by the soldiers on whom this was being tested would be very evident. That problem would be counteracted by denial on the military's part which eliminates any culpability and then by supplying a pre-scripted, official reason for the phenomena. Yes this is happening now, you know it as PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder, gulf-war syndrome, flashbacks, shellshock etc.

this didnt work so well, so the next goal is creating an army of machines that could carry out ANY order, never die, never retreat, and be mass-produced so any unit that DOES go down would quickly be replaced. They could be solar-powered, remote controlled OR act on its own AI. This would be a very cost effective, efficient sollution to the super-soldier question, and would eliminate the loss of human life, at least for the country using the robots.

United State ARMY Special Forces Green Berets and NAVY SEALS are Super Soldiers .
I read on this site a lot and it amazes me the assumptions and misinformation
posted in regards to the military .

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No training or any amount of brainwashing will EVER replace what you're born with. Yes people this include people of all race and background not just white. Sometimes we just need to be reassured of our superiority in this world.... although a false one. In my opinion, a born fighter with no training of any kind in the modern war zone will outlast and out perform any Navy SEAL or Green Beret. Please forgive me if you think I'm ignorant but after years of living in the reality of war I have seen too much to weigh anything on the training I've received. The media and movies have fooled us into believing training meant something, that in itself is a stunning display of misinformation. I have witnessed a man in slippers, straw hat, and a pajama killed 18 soldier in broad daylight in a conventional engagement before we called in an airstrike for this ONE single man. He was swift, dead accurate, amazingly quick in his movements and too small of a target for us to aim at. These are the few moments in my life I will never forget and nothing is more terrifying to me than this man we couldn't kill. No corpse was found by us after the napalm.
You want a super soldier? He's probably your neighbor or some schmuck you saw walking down the street.

some guy at work was talking about this to me the other week. he said russia were experimenting during WW2.

they were mixing ape genes and human genes cos the apes were like 8 times stronger or something. also he was saying thats where steroids came from.

maybe i will look more into this.

I think it'd be awesome if we could have gene-seed like in warhammer 40k

10 ft tall, strength of a gorilla, extra lung, extra heart... I don't see why this wouldn't be possible in the near future.

Originally posted by DOADOA
No training or any amount of brainwashing will EVER replace what you're born with.

I doubt they would be making just one "super" when you could make hundreds... training, by the way works great... so does motivation, you guys were in a foreign land, and he was in his own probably with the conviction of a cause. That counts for more than anything I think... however, training can go a long way.

Originally posted by Josephus
(of the romans) ...nor would he be mistaken that should call those their exercises unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.

Originally posted by miragezero
I think it'd be awesome if we could have gene-seed like in warhammer 40k

10 ft tall, strength of a gorilla, extra lung, extra heart... I don't see why this wouldn't be possible in the near future.

um...they were here long ago and they are coming again, they were the nephilim up to 36 feet tall they dominated earth and it was why the flood was brought to destroy the world from the evil that corrupted it. Why are we humans trying to replicate what the fallen angels already brought on earth and was the reason for its destruction? if we were ever successful in creating this abomination the end would soon follow after....

Man we never learn. Man...we never learn. Man. We never learn.

All the major countries special forces must be like just robots nowadays. Yep i agree with above, is that there is nothing better than with what you are born with.

The technology and equipment that goes into the military side of things and special forces must be immense. Who knows what they really have or what they really can do..

For me al the tech in the montauk series exists, maybe not in one project like the book, but all those techs exist, and they really do have people, connected to computers to amplify thought into reality. This really does take place, and i assume the nwo has all the tech, i doubt it belogs to the americans.

Manipulating matter with thoughts, must be high on the list of these people, and what causes good and bad luck, is something they have figured out already.

What of the "Jacob's Ladder" type of LSD projects that were possibly implemented to make soldiers more deadly? Is this a myth or has there been some proof of this?

I do remember reading somewhere that MK-ultra LSD type projects were admittedly used to try to discover how to get an enemy to "talk" or to possibly put it in the water supply of enemy forces to debilitate them....I am just wondering what kind of LSD would make a person a "super soldier".....

Originally posted by daersoulkeeper

um...they were here long ago and they are coming again, they were the nephilim up to 36 feet tall they dominated earth and it was why the flood was brought to destroy the world from the evil that corrupted it. Why are we humans trying to replicate what the fallen angels already brought on earth and was the reason for its destruction?

Maybe because nothing supernatural has ever been conclusively observed, recorded, or dissiminated to prove any of those beliefs. I wish there was, and get my hopes up when I click on half these links around here.. but, upon close inspection, they all fall apart or do not give you the information you need to go beyond belief into knowledge of fact.