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Agreed, just pointing out that the import of "Bring Packs" repeated twice is that even had he had gatlings or maxims (or even brownings or vulcans), he lacked t
by 082349872349872 2y ago
Agreed, just pointing out that the import of "Bring Packs" repeated twice is that even had he had gatlings or maxims (or even brownings or vulcans), he lacked the requisite ammunition for sustaining high rate of fire: that was all with Benteen in the baggage train.
- kragen 2y agoindeed! and perhaps the reason the colonialist industrial military juggernaut spared some of the world for decades (and never quite reached, for example, ethiopia or the andaman islands) was the outdated tactics of officers like custer, whose deaths opened up the ranks to younger officers who intuitively understood industrialized warfare