[fourdeuce82d]

Sorry, I go to this part and had to quit:

A relatively few cannon loaded with grape would cut such groups down like wheat. Therefore, Napoleon conquered all in his path until his armies froze to death in the harsh Russian winter — a mistake repeated by Hitler some years later.

Guy7 has no idea what he's talking about- napoleon did not owe his success to the use of grapeshot, and he lost the bul of his men in the russian invasion during the SUMMER, not the winter.

Napoleon's, and other artillery of the period, suffered from some difficulties. They suffered from lack of mobility and slow rates of fire.

uhh...yeah, realatively speaking...but you're compeltely missing the point that Napoleon took steps to increase the mobility of his guns, so they could be moved about the battlefield, and brought to bear at critical points.

Again, the guy doesn't have a clue.

[colorado tanker]

Yep. McNamara's strategy and tactics were badly flawed, but I wouldn't put a failure to deploy enough snipers or special forces at the top of the list.

[colorado tanker]

Oh, and Napoleon's main innovation in battlefield tactics was to have his infantry attack in column. French excellence in artillery predated Napoleon. The victory at Valmy, won largely by the artillery, announced to the world that the French artillery branch had overcome the disclocations of the Revolution and was back.