A preliminary note. I am acutely aware that what follows is an exceedingly sensitive topic, and many readers may thus take offence at this armchair strategist, with not a single scar on his body, having the nerve to sort of nonchalantly comment upon it. Yet, as a defence journalist I simply cannot feign and ignore what I see as a mounting problem. One of the most significant, arguably THE most significant advance in combat technologies to be achieved by the US (and US-led/inspired) research over the past couple decades has been represented by the gigantic progress in emergency field medicine. Large-scale scientific efforts, and very considerable amounts of money have been invested towards making the best out of the so-called Golden Hour - i.e., ensuring that soldiers wounded in action are immediately treated, stabilised, quickly evacuated from the battlefield, and then transferred as soon as possible to the best facilities modern medicine can provide. Even
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