It was a crime against the state as well as against God Himself to use a crossbow, so they thought. Oh, btw, those medieval armies even used germ warfare back then. Nothing changes, nothing new under the sun. Well, yeah, rifling was new to the Brits. I don't quite understand what you said about Kosovo.
War is hell, it is messy and painful and horrifying and unjust.
So many Americans like these Nintendo wars that our govt uses these days. That's pretty scary to me. If we're going to war against another country, then as many of us as possible should be experiencing all the hell of that war. Anything else is, well, murder. Everything's Rosie with Big Brother around.