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Gunpowder's superior noise, its superior posturing ability, made it ascendant on the battlefield. The longbow would still have been used in the Napoleonic Wars if the raw mathematics of killing effectiveness was all that mattered, since both the longbow's firing rate and its accuracy were much greater than that of a smoothbore musket. But a frightened man, thinking with his midbrain and going "ploink, ploink, ploink" with a bow, doesn't stand a chance against an equally frightened man going "BANG! BANG!" with a musket.

---Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

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Date: 2005-07-07 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erised1810.livejournal.com
Iv'e gothat to obut i guess you winyay1! on variations. parts of it for me seems to be jsut for haves. I mean can yo use me rada che guevara book? or oen about chess?
I snatched alto form project gutenberg ut i'm sortingthrough it right now picign otuthe 'this is rediculous!" ones.

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