Why Is This Drug Program Important?

First of all, despite the military's denial, Col. Gabriel and others believe the program has been continued as part of the government's "black budget" programs.

Second, many of my sources believe that a drug like Xantaeus was secretly tested on some troops in the First Gulf War and is responsible for one of the forms of Gulf War Syndrome.

Third and most significantly, as the characters in Perfect Killer discuss, when a psychopharmacological weapon like Xantaeus is available to both sides in a battle, the greatly elevated bloodshed will make it a weapon of mass destruction.

Why?

As Col. Gabriel explains in his Afterword to Perfect Killer, right now (and throughout history) a battle is won or lost when one side surrenders or breaks rank and flees.

But with the military's Xantaeus-like program, both sides will fight until one side has been slaughtered and is unable to fight. Death and bloodshed will be greatly increased.

This latter is a significant issue that needs public discussion. The use of these drugs should probably be classified in the same category as chemical and biological weapons.

Of course, like chemical and biological weapons, these psychopharmacological weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists, making it far easier to produce vast numbers of suicide bombers, not just one or two at a time, but great human waves of deadly ordnance.