The cost in street-fighting casualties was just too steep. Bradley was right. Neither option now exists. In a 1996 essay in Parameters, the journal of the Army War College, Lt. Col. The article hit a raw nerve.
Trouble is, such weaponry does no good when an enemy soldier is just a few feet away.
Since the future looks much different, new capabilities will have to be developed. In the last couple of weeks a company of U.S. Marines has been trying to find out. If the results mimic those at a similar exercise last spring, they won't be encouraging. For the new urban warfare, the military needs new equipment. To rescue wounded buddies.