There have been bows and arrows since the stone age. OK for hunting, but never used in combat by gentlemen. It would have been dishonorable not to face your foe directly.
“There have been bows and arrows since the stone age. OK for hunting, but never used in combat by gentlemen.”
If you engage in combat as a gentleman, chances are you are going to lose. War is not a game of cricket, played by gentlemen in white suits. War is a brutal, horrific endeavor meant to destroy one’s enemy. By your standards, submarine crews and high-altitude bomber crews (since both attempt to employ stealth to get into position to launch their attacks) are ungentlemanly scoundrels, deserving only of contempt and derision.