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From: khun@cd.chalmers.se.chalmers.se (Peter Wennerholm)
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Subject: Re: Drugs in War
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Date: 27 Dec 89 03:40:32 GMT
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From: khun@cd.chalmers.se.chalmers.se (Peter Wennerholm)
In article <12395@cbnews.ATT.COM> carl@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Carl Noseworthy) writes:
>Have governments ever condoned the use of drugs by their soldiers? Have
>any governments even encouraged it? I could see some sort of physical 
>advantage if a whole army was on steroids. What other types of drugs
>might be used to enhance performance in soldiers? For example, were Japanese
>Kamikaze pilots given some sort of drug before their final flights?

  Depends on how you define drugs. If you include alcohol, well...

  When the Soviet army was fighting in Stalingrad it received its supplies
  via the Volga river (at least I think that river is the Volga river), and
  the records on how much of each type of supplies that was sent still
  exists. The "food" that took up the most tonnage was Vodka!

  Also, several of the British squares at Waterloo had a barrel of rhum in
  their center.


      Peter



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