Self-Inflicted Wounds
May, 1998
Military brass have always been marvelous at denying reality. The general in command of British troops on the Western front in World War One considered the machine gun a "much overrated weapon." It would, in his expert opinion, never replace the horse on the battlefield. Stupid as that line of thinking was, Sir Douglas Haig (yes, the British gave a knighthood to the old fool) continued to believe this nonsense even after 60,000 of his men were killed or wounded in a single day attackin...
