Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

-“A more frightful example is the bayonet. It was made obsolete by increased firepower, especially from machine guns, as rapidly as the cavalry’s saber, yet it went equally unobserved – as did the increase in firepower and equipment, tactics, strategy, and logistics unchanged.”- https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1399371477552619532

-“Gunpowder and firepower made cavalry obsolescent in the early nineteenth century and obsolete before its end Yet by 1900 cavalrymen were still dominant in many armies and enormous resources were devoted to an army that was, by that time, largely worthless.”- https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1399371158395527168