Stand by what I read friend and those who were there. Nothing stops ‘em like a 30 caliber and the Ma Deuce and the M-14 has been reissued.
“Stand by what I read friend and those who were there. ...”
It may unsettle the average civilian gun enthusiast to realize this, but wars are poor places to collect data on system effectiveness.
It’s nice to say “We won World War Two because we built and fielded superior weapons.” It might be true, but we cannot do much with such an assertion. Because it conveys precisely nothing about which weapons were superior or why, and still less about just how much better they were.
Doing the scutwork of finding out what happened, drawing solid conclusions, and attributing results to the right gadgets (and people) are not cheery tasks, nor romantic, nor indeed terribly inspiring.
But they must be done, if we entertain any hopes of taking an accurate read on what happened. Still less pleasant, but perhaps more cogent, are the tasks of predicting what might happen in the future, forecasting the best way to organize/train/equip forces to prevail - or just survive - the next time.