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Re: The Civil methods of war
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Originally posted by rattus58
You have to wonder just what they were thinking, being a general in the war. It is clear, that then as now, old habits are sometimes hard to break.
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Absolutely. rattus. And what's worse, this same kind of thinking controlled the command echelons in the first two years of WWI, despite the machine gun. And despite the fact that every major European WWI belligerent had observers over here during our Civil War.... I don't think ANY of them took home any "lessons learned"!
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"It seems very difficult to impress most reloaders with the fact that every rifle is an individual, and what proves to be a maximum load in one may be quite mild in another, and vice versa." Bob Hagel, GAME LOADS AND "PRACTICAL BALLISTICS FOR THE AMERICAN HUNTER, 1977
The inmates are still running the asylum!
"If you are 20 years old and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are 40 and not a conservative, you have no brain!" W. Churchill
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