If another country successfully started cloning their best soldiers do you think that the U.S. would join in?

Question

Imagine a whole army of top soldiers who are trained well in all the arts of war and can be replaced at will if injured or killed.

Answer 1

Quite honestly, I think we'll see killer robots first. Cloning is just another way of making humans, and there's no guarantee that clones will want to fight. Quite likely, a cloned human will have the right to refuse military service like any other person. With robots or drones, you won't have that problem.

The predator unmanned aerial vehicles are a step in that direction. It's a remote controlled plane that can fire missiles at whatever it sees through its reconnaissance cameras. If it gets shot down, they just launch another one, and the same pilot can fly it.

I think we'll see ground versions soon, for urban combat and patrols, and this is going to be cheaper and easier than clones for the foreseeable future, not to mention more politically viable.

As if we didn't learn anything from the Terminator movies...

Answer 2

In this day and age of warfare ground troops are not as important as what they once were. Mere masses of troops are inconsiquental.
Cloning soldiers would really not be that big a deal. The most deadly and affective methods of warfare don't involve soldiers(in this context ground troops). You could cripple or conquer a country quite easily with the proper placement of a few tactical nukes and then an appropriate air strike. You could even wipe them out biologically. It'd be better to make the AI on planes (and tanks perhaps?) better so they could fly nonstop without any danger to humans and without the error of humans.
It would be much more advantagous to research new types of nukes perhaps explosives that use the forces behind anti-matter and matter annilations, or more advanced stealth unmaned airplane bombing or using lasers or firing weapons from space, or newer strains of diseases to destroy your enemy.
Even superior weapons used by soldiers would give them an edge over a simple mass of excellent cloned soldiers that did not have equal weapory. Just think of when the belt fed machine gun came into existance - regardless of how many men came in a bayonet charges when masses charged expecting a melee, they were mowed down like grass. And that is nothing to the strength of a few well placed tactical nukes. If all the main cities in a country are instanaeous destroyed, even if the army is vast and powerful, they will have no basis for effective leadership or communication and they will soon logistically collaspe(they may still cause much trouble as guerillas but that is another story) to a well organized and technologically superior force.
If the us wanted to clone soldiers they probably would have decades ago(maybe they already have) or if they have not and antoher country does then when that country attacks the us they will just destroy the mass of soldiers with advaced nukes or decimate them with pestilances.

Answer 3

That's a cute question. You must realize that you're oblivious to the fact that the states are leaders in immoral science, such as cloning for the wrong cause. If they ever reveal that a country was capable of cloning super-human soldiers, the states will be the first to do so. Cloning in order to find cures for diseases is moral in my opinion.

Answer 4

Well, sith lord... Would the US clone military personal if another country started to do it first? Yes. They would. It would save the ones who live in the US from going to war. Though not without a heck of alot of controversy, on morals and such.

Answer 5

Not anytime soon. We're too invested in building bigger, better weapons. Consider this, it takes a couple of decades to grow and train a human to be cannon fodder the American way. In Africa they get children to do it who haven't reached puberty yet. They think children are cheap and expendable soldiers and it didn't take cloning technology. They aren't well trained, but our well-trained troops will pause and delay shooting them, putting ourselves at a disadvantage.

Answer 6

I think that they would just because the United States wouldn't want another country to improve their technology more then the U.S., also the fear of being taken over by the other soldiers.

Answer 7

This question is irrelevant. We are already cloning Arnold Schwarzenagar in different fatigues and bullet-proof armor. "Terminate that Question!" Ha

Answer 8

Join-in cloning their soliders, or cloning American soliders? If their soliders sucked, then why bother? Besides, one good nuke will wipe them all out anyway!

Answer 9

We (U.S.) have them now.They aren't cloned.