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The fact is modern firearms increase tremendously our combative power, in a way that even 19th c. firearms do not. If there are any doubts, please ask the numerous Japanese soldiers who, having run out of ammunition, charged at American machine gun nests with little more than naked bayonets. As Colonel Cooper said, bushido is fine, but it's no match for 30-06.


There have been occasions, where bayonet charges have proved decisive even in modern warfare such as the up hill night time attack by the Scots Guards on Mount Tumbledown during the Falklands war in 1982.