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Angry Planet

Can Psychonauts Win America’s Wars?

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3882 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Drugs and war go together like peanut butter and jelly. American soldier boys smoked the reefer in Vietnam, the Wehrmacht ran on amphetamine, and Viking Berserkers were probably on something. Soldiers have enhanced and altered perception using chemicals for centuries, but in the annals of getting fucked up and going to war you don’t hear a lot about psychedelics such as LSD and MDMA.


But that might be changing. With us today is Marine Corps officer Emre Albayrak. Albayrak is an Expeditionary Ground Reconnaissance officer and has served as an intelligence officer for 12 years. He’s also the author of an interesting article in the February issue of the Marine Corps Gazette—a professional journal published by the Marine Corps Association. It’s titled Microdosing: Improving Performance Enhancements in Intelligence Analysis. It suggests, very basically, that military intelligence operations could get a boost if Marines dropped a little acid


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Because I don't know for a fact, but I can almost guarantee that there are other near peer competitors out there that are experimenting with stuff like this.

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You know, if Eastern Block Germany was impregnating powerlifter and giving them abortions in order to increase

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females levels of testosterone in their bodies to compete at a higher level at the Olympics?

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I don't know, wouldn't you think that there's

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certain unsavory characters out there

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that are experimenting with all sorts of cognitive enhancers right now? up.

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You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories

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a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

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Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to war college. I'm Matthew Galt. And I'm Derek Cannon.

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Drugs and war go together like peanut butter and jelly.

1:28.4

The American soldier boys smoked the reefer in Vietnam. The wormocks ran on

1:31.8

amphetamine and Viking berserkers were probably on something.

1:36.0

Soldiers have enhanced and altered perception using chemicals for centuries,

1:40.3

but in the annals of getting fucked up and going to war, you don't hear a lot about

1:43.8

psychodellics such as LSD and MDMA. That might be changing. With us today is

1:49.6

a Marine Corps officer Emory al-Byrrhic. Al-Byriric is an expeditionary ground reconnaissance officer and

1:55.8

is served as an intelligence officer for 12 years. He's also the author of an interesting article

2:01.4

in the February issue of Marine Corps Gazette, a professional

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