Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "British Submachine Gun Overview: Lanchester, Sten, Sterling, and More!" video.

  1. Ian, The British got religion about the Sterling in the early Fifties. Ya had the Communist Terrorists in the Malayan jungle, the Mau Mau Mau Mauing in the Kenya bush country and assorted guerrillas, el supremos and war lords running around the colonies. The utility of a light automatic weapon TODAY became obvious to the War House and they managed to persuade HMG that sending over a Boeing Washington (The USAF gave the B-29 to the RAF when they got rid of the Superfort https://weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/bgfbgfgb.jpg) with a "Blue Danube" nuke (still developmental) didn't equal what a brigade of infantry could accomplish out in the bush. I can remember reading a book about the military trends in the early Sixties, the realization that nukes were unusable and the renaissance of ground forces that was subtitled, "The Long Road Back From the Bomb"
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