Let us assume you are correct:
Are our troops best served by facing such superhuman troops in the future, while themselves UNenhanced..?
Maybe they’d win on shear superior DIGNITY...?
I have my doubts.
Would such troops SUFFER via enhancement..?
sheer, whoops.
Let’s just extend that thought into the future:
Are you comfortable with the thought of a physically enhanced class of warrior humans, at all? Are you so certain that such a class of humans wouldn’t attempt to take over a given society that creates them?
As you point out, it may be an inevitability by now, since the genie’s out of the bottle. Others have them therefore we must have them. However, we’ll no longer all be simply human. There will be human, and there will be other. And, that other will continue to change at an increasingly rapid pace.
I’m asking you to think forward a bit, past the benefits that you’re working so diligently to tout, to see the effects upon society that will be the price that’s paid. It seems difficult for you, but please try.
On a somewhat different note that might help you envision unintended future consequences: remember the Patriot Act? Sounded good in the aftermath of 9/11 didn’t it? So did DHS. How do you feel about them now, since they’ve been extended way past their original intent as always occurs?