‘Be that as it may, Churchill foresaw that WW2 was not the end but the beginning
of a wider and deadlier and longer Wizard War…’
THAT was when the Powers That Be first asked wizards to start doing local interventions.” [Duane Diane, Wizards at War]
The interventions included the NSDAP regime’s Me-163 aka the Komet as named by its designer (Alexander Martin Lippisch), the Soviet W-12 airship/war-blimp, the British bunker/dam-busters used in Operation Chastise, the American flying bombs employed in Operations Aphrodite and Anvil, and the Japanese Imperial Navy’s Funryu (Raging Dragon) rocket, among others.
No wonder the UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill considered World War II a Global Wizarding War. Wizards like the 1,500 research personnel who were removed forcibly from Nazi Germany and and thence relocated to Great Britain. Targets of Operation Surgeon (Employment of German Scientists and Technicians: Denial Policy; https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=3920810&catln=6] A parallel American effort: “Shortly after the termination of the war with Germany, attempts were made, on a high-priority basis, to deny to the USSR and other nations outstanding German and Austrian scientists and technicians. Unfortunately, even at this early date, the USSR had, by one means or another, taken a number of outstanding German scientific personnel, who would be of use in atomic energy and other programs, to various installations within the USSR or satellites. To mention a few, von Ardennes, Bode, Born, Gelb, Hertz, Ortmaman, Patzschke, Pose, Riehl, Schintelmeister, Schuetz, Volmer and Zimmer, were and are within the U.S.S.R. and most likely engaged in research activities connected with the atomic energy program.” [https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/PROJECT%20PAPERCLIP_0004.pdf] Through Operation Paperclip, the Americans did manage to take Walter Jacobi, Heinz Hilten, Klaus Scheufelen, Hermann H. Kurzweg,Friedwardt Winterberg, Max Josenhaus, Hubertus Strughold, and the rest of the Von Braun Group. The Americans were also probably referring to the USSR’s Operation Osoaviakhim by which 2,500 former Nazi German specialists were brought to the Soviet Union as war reparations.
But why did the Americans privilege Dr. Shiro Ishii of Kyoto University? “To Ishii, the enemy was different – he saw them, as increasing numbers of Japanese were to do, as inferior beings, subservient to Japan, and there only to be used at the will of the conquering Japanese Empire. Unit 731 was the first and main establishment, and others soon followed, including Unit 100 (Changchun), Unit 200 (Manchuria), Unit 516 (Qiqihar), Unit 543 (Hailar), Unit 773 (Songo unit), Unit Ei 1644 (Nanjing), Unit 1855 (Beijing), Unit 8604 (Guangzhou) and Unit 9420 (Singapore). The experimental subjects were treated worse than livestock. They were brought in from areas occupied by the Japanese in China and Korea, and were held in enclosures… frequently subjected to vivisection, having limbs or organs removed to study the effects. Men had their extremities frozen until they became gangrenous, so the course of the agonizing fatal infection could be studied. Women were cut open so that their fetuses could be studied; others had limbs cut off so that death through blood loss could be observed. People had air let into veins, to study how they died; some were hung upside down to see how long they survived, others were treated in high-pressure chambers, were spun until dead on giant centrifuges or injected with urine and seawater…The International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare concluded in 2002 that the number of people killed by the Imperial Japanese Army in their medical experiments was around 580,000.” [Brian Ford, Secret Weapons, 2013]
“No doubt aware that his activities constituted war crimes of the highest order, Ishii faked his own death in late 1945 and went into hiding. When American occupation forces learned that Ishii was still alive, they ordered the Japanese to hand him over and investigators from Camp Detrick began interrogations. At first, Ishii denied any human testing had taken place but, aware that the Soviets also wanted to talk to him and their methods might not be so mild, he later offered to reveal all the details of his program in exchange for immunity from war crimes prosecution. Anxious to learn the results of experiments that they themselves had been unable to perform, the American military accepted Ishii’s offer, and approval was then given by the highest level of government. Ultimately Ishii’s materials proved to be of little value, but the United States kept its end of this dubious bargain. Biological weapons were never mentioned in the Japanese war crimes trials, and Ishii died a free man in 1959.” [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/weapon-biography-shiro-ishii/]
Be that as it may, Churchill foresaw that WW2 was not the end but the beginning of a wider and deadlier and longer Wizard War: “London was surprised by a play called Roosum’s Universal Robots. The production of such beings may well be possible within 50 years. They will not be made, but grown under glass.” [“Fifty Years Hence”]
There are already indications in the concurrent wars (Ukraine, Palestine): “Russian defense industrial complex has publicized a number of exoskeleton-based combat suits through press releases, interviews, and trade shows. The most discussed suit is the Ratnik-3 suit developed by Central Research Institute for Precision Machine Building, or TsNiiTochMash…Rostec, a large Russian state-owned defense conglomerate, is developing the Sotnik suit, which is to be built around a titanium, actuated exoskeleton…Russian defense company, Armocom, is developing the Legionnaire suit, which includes a full-body actuated exoskeleton.” [https://www.forbes.com/sites/vikrammittal/2023/03/23/the-hype-and-reality-of-russian-exoskeleton-technology-for-the-russia-ukraine-war/]
Not really new: CNN, 06 October 2015, Joe Votel (commander of the U.S. Special Operations command) talks about suits being developed by the Army that might make some real-life Tony Starks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnBXxqyn44] Add to the mix: Tactical Jet Suit Drills, Gravity Industries [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNDBrSxg3tE] and The Soldier of the Future, U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1m68B53jek] Iron Man suit shown at Tampa military conference, FOX 13 Tampa Bay, May 22, 2019 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az3sNR9Nawc] Thunderbolts, anyone?
