professor of biomedical ethics at case western reserve university maxwell mehlman recently posited a very interesting question hawke watchers is it ethical to dope troops so they fight better in other words should soldiers be given performance enhancing drugs in order to perform better and stronger and faster on the battlefield soldiers in the u.s. military and other armies around the world about a long history of being given drugs to supplement combat missions going all the way back to world war 2 when better means were widely distributed to soldiers on all sides of the conflict and found a means of actually found their way into the contemporary war on terror as well in fact back in 2004 u.s. pilots in afghanistan accidentally dropped a bomb that killed 4 canadian soldiers due to the drugs influence and now according to professor mehlman the defense advanced research projects agency is trying to make troops kill proof by engineering super nutrition pills and substances to make them smarter and stronger so with captain america the adventure is dominating the box office appears the u.