Sixgun McGurk
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I suppose that there is a lifecycle for weapons. Soldiers try to figure out how to kill some war machine with whatever they have right now, then after the war some genius looks it over at leisure and spends years coming up with easy ways to win. The unwary victim sits in his stupor and pays the price when his most fearsome weapons of the last war turn into pushovers. The defences of the Maginot Line come to mind. The men that built it never imagined parachutists when planning and the men who broke it had a problem with known parameters to solve. That's why we'd better watch out and keep in mind that our systems are always being closely examined by enemies.