[pttttt]

A navy official in Washington, Lieutenant-Commander Danny Hernandez, said: "We don't even have that in our arsenal." The US military says it last used napalm in 1993 and destroyed its last batch of the weapon in 2001.

Any idea why?

[3k9pm]

PC nicey nicey crap.

You want shock and awe.

Nothing induces capitulation faster than cooking a good portion of an op4 with napalm. Takes the fight out of troops pretty quick.

[Iwentsouth]

Bad press...

[tricky_k_1972]

They have better more precise weapons to do the same job.

The fuel air bomb for example takes care of an area weapon to burn but causes much less after affects, also the daisy cutter produces the same brush clearing (defoliation) without the continued burn. I might also suggest that napalm makes for real lousy press. Pictures of live burning people don't make good pictures for the home front.

[El Whino]

A navy official in Washington, Lieutenant-Commander Danny Hernandez, said: "We don't even have that in our arsenal." The US military says it last used napalm in 1993 and destroyed its last batch of the weapon in 2001.

Any idea why?

Very limited application & effectiveness against most target sets...and delivery profile is not conducive to delivery aircrew survivability in most threat environments.

[P8riot]

Any idea why?

Possibly because napalm was developed by DuPont and DuPont is French < /sarcasm>

[hobbes1]

Any idea why?

Because the fact that little gyrenes learn songs like...

Napalm sticks to little children...
All the Children of the world...
Red, Yellow, Black or White,
They all scream when they ignite...
'cuz napalm sticks to all the children of the world...

Does not play well in todays media.