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Originally Posted by Spartan198
Just feels like history is repeating itself. The XM7 is the new M14, the M320 is the new M79, and CCP/Russian Fed are the new Red Scare.
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Except the irony is that this time, it's the conservatives who are downplaying the Russian threat to the U.S., instead of the left. (Though the modern left still has its own demons whose existence it denies.)
As for the XM7 being the new M14: The big difference is that at least with the M14, the U.S. military had the excuse that it was selecting an infantry rifle for a war that would be fought the same way as World War II. The M14 was a failure, but it's an understandable failure. The XM7 is a product of the U.S. military over-learning the lessons of Afghanistan, before it learned the lessons of Ukraine. What is inexcusable is that we should have learned (essentially) the same lessons about urban combat from Iraq.