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Is it possible to indoctrinate child soldiers to the point of being robotic in science fiction setting Question
Backstory:
So I had an idea where there's this secret society type organization with a specialized super-powered group to deal with serious and major threats. After something of a civil war breaks out with the small group the organization decides to greenlight a secret project to breed soldiers meant for the sole purpose of fighting and killing the group should any liabilities come up. The children, who will be called "subjects" for the question, are raised from birth for fighting the various members of the group, being the offspring of either members or various people with traits and powers desirable for this task, having age acceleration to speed up the aging process to be at the prime age. The subjects have no sense of individuality or self, being completely robotic in nature, not understanding basic human concepts such as humor, figurative speaking, or even emotions.
Additional Details:
The subjects are breed to have traits and powers to fight designated members of the target group, with some even having addional augmentations such as cybernetics, while some have more beastial based traits and as such act a little more aggressive. The people in charge experimented with all sorts of methods to ensure absolute obedience, with some working less than others, until they found a way to make it so the soldiers are all absolutely obedient without question, even the more aggressive beastial subjects, through psychological programming and even setting it up so any form of insubordination was not tolerated and swiftly weeded out by fellow subjects such is done in the military, albeit done in a more harsh and inhumane manner.
I started to wonder, however, what methods could be used to psychologically condition them into obedience or if it's even possible to make them act with absolute obedience due to the human element involved, especially since I began to notice that even in my story the subjects do exhibit some level of human behavior such as varying levels of aggressive fighting styles as well single-minded determination towards whatever objectives they're given and tend to learn, adapt, and adjust and "relevant" information to each instantaneously through specialized brain implants designed to allow neuro-telecommunications among each other, which indicatessome level of social etiquette and communication between each other.
Question:
What would be the most effective way to indoctrinate child soldiers into absolute obedience or if it's even possible to make them absolutely obedient and non human in behavior without just making them into literal machines in a close to reality science fiction setting.
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