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** Military pilots call them "go pills" and they also have "stop pills" for when the need to stay alert has passed. The latter being basically sedatives. Both are passed out by doctors if requested. An over-reliance on these drugs is somewhat controversial though, since they may also have negative effects on things like alertness, situational awareness, judgment, etc.
** Drug-addled pilots have been implicated in [[Friend or Foe|friendly fire]] incidents, most notably that of an American pilot dropping a 500-lb bomb on a Canadian platoon in Afghanistan in 2002.
* In some settings (more where cannon fodder tactics were used than today's mechanized warfare which would yield very dangerous results), alcoholic drink has been used to encourage soldiers to think less about saving their own skin and more about fighting. Of course, alcohol has been called [[wikipedia:Dutch courage|"liquid courage"]] and such for ages, but nowadays we can [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425082459/http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/courage-in-a-bottle-no-myth.html test this with brain scans], too.
** The Red Army during WWII famously used shots of vodka (called "the Peoples' Commissar's 100 grams") to bolster morale.
* In a [[Fridge Horror|somewhat disturbing]] [http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1447 blog post], [[Blindsight|Peter Watts]] suggested a version: ''"Isolate the neurochemical factors that come into play when [[Mama Bear|a mother sees her children being threatened]]; synthesise them; dose every female soldier with an aerosol of the stuff before you send her into the field. If any of the boys complain about women in the military after ''that'', it’ll only be because they keep getting their asses kicked on performance reviews. Either that, or because they’re scared shitless."''
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