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I wouldn't like to be a guinea pig for those treatments....

"They" should make war illegal, or tax it, or something ...

During World War II, fighter planes would come back from battle with bullet holes. The Allies initially sought to strengthen the most commonly damaged parts of the planes to increase combat survivability. A mathematician, Abraham Wald, pointed out that perhaps the reason certain areas of the planes weren’t covered in bullet holes was that planes that were shot in certain critical areas did not return. This insight led to the armor being reinforced on the parts of returning planes where there were no bullet holes. This wisdom was also beneficially applied to the Skyraider during the Korean War. This shows that the reasons why we are missing certain data may be more meaningful than the available data, itself. In questions of aircraft design, don’t only listen to what the evidence says, listen also to what is not being said.

I feel like this is where having a smartass around helps.  That useful tidbit would be noted, perhaps in a joking way, by a smartass just making a comment.  
The decision-maker, if listening, would say....."actually, you're right!"

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
"I Have a Dream," Says Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest civil-rights demonstrations ever conducted in the US. More than 200,000 people heard civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is considered one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory. However, his prepared text did not mention a dream—King composed that section on the spot, likely at the urging of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.

I read somewhere an analysis of how an army with longbows would do facing a Napoleonic era army with muskets.  It was bad for the musket side, but the longbow mastery requires much longer training than musket mastery.

Napoleon relied largely on conscripts with smoothbores marching in large blocks.  The British were often in a defensive posture in line and could fire about every 15 seconds.  They'd get close, maybe 60 yards, and aiming was not at issue, reloading quickly was.

Yeah, and they were using light bows with limited range.  A longbow is different.

The notion was a British line of infantry had to close inside 100 yards and by then a longbow equipped line would have torn them up starting at 250 yards.  You could loose 6-10 arrows per minute if you didn't run out.  Each arrow would have maybe a 5% chance of a hit, going up as they closed.  Math.

The other factor would be cannon.  Napoelonic tactics are interesting to study, I think.  Often it was just bludgeoning and who could stand their ground.  Napoleon was almost never on defense.  Wellington often fought a defensive battle and then struck when he thought it favorable.  His troops were of a very high value in general.