Argghhh!

The way we've handled this, whether by design or simple inability to think it through (and I rather suspect, in a sense, both at once) serves to display weakness and fear, and in so doing, shows how the jihadis, investing only in cell and internet service, can "Make the puppet dance." And feeds their ego. They made us lift our skirts and run.

...who brought up Confederate polygonal cavity artillery projectiles. I knew I had one somewhere. An early attempt to control fragmentation....

...not this one, alas. At least not directly. Tales of the Vultures. And the first one out of the blocks will feature Our [Missing] Bill.

BOQ

Boq

Here's a 1940 letter to the SECNAV Hon. Frank Knox, Secretary of War [NB: Actually Secretary of the Navy] October 4, 1940 Dear Mr. Knox: It is very discouraging to one who, in spite of a Mid-western Republican background and active Republican sympathies, nevertheless wrote his Congressman in support to the compulsory military training program, and hoped for all possible material aid to the cause of Britain, to hear of the proposal made under your apparent blessing, to conscript the national physique...

I was going to write about this - "Green Ammunition" - but CDR Salamander already covered it . I fervently wish the good idea mongers would go live-test this stuff themselves. I'm not against more effective ammunition. I'm not against cheaper ammunition, either. I'm not against spending more if the effectiveness tradeoff is there. I am against making more expensive, less effective ammunition just because we fervently want to believe it makes us somehow nicer to the environment...