On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:22:11 -0800, the infamous Gunner Asch
scrawled the following:

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:01:27 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

I learned fire and maneuver during the Vietnam era and never
understood a line of troops marching into musket fire. He explains why
a volley made so few if any hits. He wrote in the period of new
weapons and old tactics, when military thinkers observed the changes
but didn't correctly predict the solutions, a major cause of the
stalemate of WW1. I think that inventors overwhelmed military minds
with a flood of bad technical solutions and made them distrust
everything, including the few really good ones. We have that now with
alternate energy.


Hiram Maxim changed the face of war forever, as did Herr Krupp.

Respectively, they gave us the new/improved gatling gun and the
coffemaker, right? gd&wvvf

--
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a
question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
-- Bertrand Russell