7 Most Insane Historical Attempts To Create A Super Soldier

7. The Power Of Cross-Dressing

Nearly 30 years ago, Charles Taylor started an armed rebellion aimed at overthrowing Liberia’s President Samuel Doe, and he went about it in the most fabulous way possible.

According to the Liberian Studies Journal, some soldiers in Taylor’s militia actually went into battle wearing women’s clothing (including wedding dresses), bright pink wigs, and feather boas. The reason for that was due to some Liberian beliefs that a person could "confuse the enemy's bullets" by taking on a new identity, like that of a runner up of RuPaul's Drag Race.

The logic was that a bullet would go looking for a man to kill, and when it instead found a soldier in drag, it would assume it was a lady and not hit “her” because the bullet was raised to be a gentleman.

This… apparently worked because Taylor would go on to win the war, become Liberia’s new president, and commit a whole bunch of horrific war crimes because life is depressing like that.