Bio-engineering and Bio-medical Technologies: Role in the Protection of the Protectors

Abstract

Every country is engaging its armed forces in different terrain and climatic conditions to protectsovereignty and manage internal conflict. During peace / wartime conflicts, the soldiers are subjected toextremeenvironmental conditions.  These extreme, hostile, non-habitable conditions exert a toll on the soldiers’ performance and also pose threat to theirlife. Airmen are prone to be exposed to low pressures, high altitude, and hypoxic conditions. Similarly,a Mariner is exposed to high pressuresand hydro environment. Land soldiers are deployed in various terrain having myriadenvironmental conditions such ashigh temperature in deserts, subzero cold conditions in the high mountains andvarying range of difficulties encountered in forested hilly terrain.In addition to these adverse conditions, soldiers also need to counter theconflicts from neighboring / enemy countries.  It is paramount that, these soldiers are protected from all these adverse extreme environmental conditions.