"Artillery lends dignity to an otherwise vulgar brawl"
My military 'bias' runs towards artillery.
I admit that my first love is artillery and the sound of the howitzer's thunder.
It disheartened me a few years back when generals in charge, like Eric Shinseki, declared artillery dead.
Afghanistan showed a need for light towed artillery, and there were articles recently about how they were scrambling to get as many light towed tubes as they could.
My prediction at the time was that the generals would eventually be shown to be not just wrong but dead wrong.
The only part of my prediction that was wrong was that it would be at the cost of soldier's lives.
We saw that those declaring artillery dead were wrong before it cost lives.
I recall a cavalry instructor in the US Army interviewed recently. He was discussing the agility of horses and how they can still be useful today. The Afghanis heavily relied on horses - probably still do.