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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 4656284" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Actually, most armies have both.  Guns and knives/bayonets are both good in different circumstances, as SHARK knows.  But of course you're right that the gun-only army usually beats the knife-only army.  There are exceptions like Ishandlwana (sp?), where a spear & club armed Zulu army of around 20,000 annihilated a rifle-armed British army of around 1500 through superior tactics and numbers.  And for stealth ops a knife may be generally better.  But the general point that for militarily purposes a gun is generally superior to a knife (or spear) is 100% correct.</p></blockquote><p></p>