Super Soldiers: Performance-Enhancing Drugs and the Military

Wes O'Donnell
6 min readNov 3, 2018

By Wes O’Donnell. U.S. Army & U.S. Air Force Veteran. Managing Editor, InMilitary.com & InCyberDefense.com. Speaker and veteran advocate. Reach out to Wes on LinkedIn.

Wars are rarely fought totally sober.

Although that was the case throughout most of human history, it seems inconceivable that today’s professional U.S. military would use performance-enhancing drugs for an edge against our nation’s formidable adversaries. But you may be surprised.

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Wes O'Donnell

Army & Air Force Veteran | Global Security guy at War is Boring, GEN, OneZero | Intel Forecaster | Law Student | TEDx Speaker | Pro-Democracy | Pro-Human Rights