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The problem is that we've gotten really good at countering spalling. Like really good. If you maintained the spall liners, most kinds of spall would be useless, at least from my readings. It also didn't help that the US's prior experiences tended to be fighting soldiers so hopped up on combat...

Yeah, but they lose a lot of their anti-infantry potential in doing so, and that is the stuff that is readily available as well. The funny thing is that we're getting into an interesting time in armor, where the only way to penetrate new armor is bigger.

The sad thing was that the M16 was a victim of the Cult of the Rifle, no more and no less. Until the 1980s, the US upper echelons were deep into the Rifle Cult. It's why the 0.280 British got canned despite being better than a 0.30cal in general (and the skullduggery that went into that is only...

However, that was part of the general reprisal against Westerners... and let's be honest, that was a shitshow all around.

It happens, I sometimes screw up when it comes to stating what I was thinking, leaving out key details... ... that I got to see...

I worded that wrong... I meant historical English. Sorry about that. I keep forgetting to add the historical bit. :eek: ... huh... what I had put the entire thing as a British thing...

Everything I had pointed to the British being the inventors of concentration camps... I was saying the British/English in general, not you specifically.

Quite a bit, I mean the British Admiralty came out clean a few years back that the Lusitania was illegally carrying war goods and engineered the events so it would be sunk to bring the US into the war... then there was the brutality of the reprisals that the British utilized during the Sepoy...

Wow, this is some class A Teaabo shit... seriously. What Britain had and Germany didn't was damn good PR. Especially since Britain pulled a few near-Holodomors in its time, and less said about how they treated Native Americans and Africans, the better.

Historically, much of Britain was racist pricks who were a-ok with all sorts of genocide, either implicitly or explicitly. Reading how the Brits treated everyone not British (including but not limited to: Scots, Irish, Indians, and various African tribes) is an eye-opener. While they did some...

Given how much of racist pricks the British were (and still are)? I'm not surprised.

More or less. Most of it is either doing shit that is basically the same gig as male peacocks (i.e. what is essentially dick-waving contests) or staying away from anyone not them, never to the workers (and before you say it goes to the workers indirectly, that hasn't been the case since the '70s...

To be honest, we simply need to ensure that the rich actually pay their taxes more than anything. Another thing is that we're seeing the Star Wars Legends 'Judicial Forces are too overstretched because of the small budget for the commitments' situation playing out in real life...

From my understanding, the Russians had made a concentrated effort (as in 'cultural and literal genocide' levels of effort) to wipe out Poland in its entirety. Even the Prussians (and later, Imperial Germany) weren't that bad. My understanding is that central Europe was such a quagmire of 'fun'...

From what I understand, not really. The US at the time was very anti-British, at least with the general populous... the British targeted wasn't the general populous but the various elites, specifically the economic ones.

If I remember right, he was given a list of RMS vessels that he was free to target without consequence... but that was from an article that I don't have the link to as I read it ages ago.

From what I understand, there were restrictions on carrying war cargo in ships like the Lusitania... but I'm not exactly up to date on the exact literature.

Given everyone simply screwed anyone that went with the 'Lusitania wasn't carrying illegal war cargo' fact was decried as conspiracy theorists until the British Admiralty went 'yep, the Lusitania was carrying illegal war cargo' a few years back... ... I'm giving a tiny benefit of the doubt. Not...

Largely because of what is essentially a fucking coverup from what I understand (while a significant portion of the US populous was Pro-Germany, a good portion of the economic leaders were pro-British). Germany literally posted a warning in the papers that their intelligence services had viable...

The thing is, he never trusted the British. Especially since, during WW1, they loved to interfere inside US waters.