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I think it was Stephen Hunter who described the AK-47 as the spatha of guerrilla warfare. (The spatha was the Roman soldier's short sword that helped carry the eagles of Rome from Mesopotamia to Britannia.)

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I think it was Stephen Hunter who described the AK-47 as the spatha of guerrilla warfare. (The spatha was the Roman soldier's short sword that helped carry the eagles of Rome from Mesopotamia to Britannia.)

AKA the Gladius Iberius, or gladius Hispaniensis. But Hunter was less fond of the shorty tank crewmans' version of the AK, the AKS-74U, known to Russian tankisti as the suchka.

Hunter's original WP article Dressed to Kill, from Kabul to Kandahar, it's not what you wear, but what you shoot was the subject of a FReeppost *here*, but the original article posting atr WP seems to have fallen down their *memory hole.* I've not yet found it elsewhere on the web, but it may turn up again.