
Originally Posted by
buzz_knox
He doesn't. He's a military scifi author (and a good one). He's combining his service experience with some anecdotes and ancient history. He's neglected to take into account the more recent developments and combat experience of the 21st Century.
There's some logic there, but in the actual practice of asymmetric warfare the quality of the rifle pales compared to what air supremacy and good C2ISR capability can bring, so if in the mid-90's this was written it would make more sense, but as bad as the FutureWarrior project was in concept, the DARPA shove towards making the spinoffs relevant has produced a lot of quality kit.
It's the wrong analysis, but the fact that we're not making smart product improvements and using the onus of some required changes to do things smarter (e.g. use the green ammo push to make Solid Copper 'Brown Tip' (or Mk318/Mk319) service-wide) is symptomatic of the uselessness of upper echelons of leadership, and how disconnected the majority of the generalship is.
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