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Area of Science:

  • Military medicine
  • Bioethics
  • Human performance optimization

Background:

  • State militaries aim to enhance warfighter biological, physiological, and cognitive capacities.
  • Ethical and regulatory challenges for military enhancement research are underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore ethical justifications for research into enhancing warfighters.
  • To examine these justifications within the US Common Rule and Institutional Review Board (IRB) framework.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of ethical considerations for military human enhancement research.
  • Application of the US Common Rule and IRB framework to proposed justifications.

Main Results:

  • Identified potential justifications for warfighter enhancement research.
  • Proposed grounds include individual/group risk reduction, third-party protection, and military effectiveness.

Conclusions:

  • Ethical frameworks can support research into enhancing warfighter capabilities.
  • Justifications are grounded in safety, protection, and operational effectiveness.