[jimtorr]

all they have to do is hand out rifles. One man, 10 rounds, go into battle.

No, I don't think so. This isn't Korea anymore, or the Iran-Iraq war. Human-wave attacks will do nothing but get all the humans in the wave killed. Come to think of it, that's what happened to the Iranian untrained soldiers used in mass attacks.

A modern army just has too much firepower. Massed attacks can only be effective in a limited scale ambush in rugged country where modern firepower cannot be brought to bear.

[Go Gordon]

A modern army just has too much firepower.

Like the AC-110 gun ship?

[astounded]

Just imagine the carnage a flight of AC130s would do to a massed army of riflemen in the open. Truly shooting fish in a barrel. And that does not even count the most devastating components of the US arsenal.