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Shooting Up - A Short History of Drugs and War (Hardcover)
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Shooting Up - A Short History of Drugs and War (Hardcover)
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Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how
intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and
their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized
combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two
general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to
counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is
over. Stimulants (e.g. alcohol, cocaine, and amphetamines) have
been used to temporarily create better soldiers by that improving
stamina, overcoming sleeplessness, eliminating fatigue, and
increasing fighting spirit. Downers (e.g. alcohol, opiates,
morphine, heroin, marijuana, barbiturates) have also been useful in
dealing with the soldier's greatest enemy - shattered nerves.
Kamienski's focuses on drugs "prescribed" by military authorities,
but also documents the widespread unauthorised consumption by
soldiers themselves. Combatants have always treated with various
drugs and alcohol, mainly for recreational use and as a reward to
themselves for enduring the constant tension of preparing for.
Although not officially approved, such "self-medication" is often
been quietly tolerated by commanders in so far as it did not affect
combat effectiveness. This volume spans the history of combat from
the use of opium, coca, and mushrooms in pre-modern warfare to the
efforts of modern militaries, during the Cold War in particular, to
design psychochemical offensive weapons that can be used to
incapacitate rather than to kill the enemy. Along the way,
Kamienski provides fascinating coverage of on the European adoption
of hashish during Napolean's invasion of Egypt, opium use during
the American Civil War, amphetamines in the Third Reich, and the
use of narcotics to control child soldiers in the rebel militias of
contemporary Africa.
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