Good points, but another issue is that many people, including almost all journalists, have so little understanding of military equipment and operations that they often make amazingly silly mistakes (when is a tank, not a tank? When it is an up armored HMMWV).
A few moments ago, I listened to a lecture in which Margaret MacMillan, an historian of the 'long nineteenth century', who sports more degrees than the proverbial thermometer, confessed to her inability to distinguish between a 'needle gun' and an 'breech-loading rifle'. ('It's like bugs and insects, Professor. All needle guns are breech-loading rifles, but not all breech-loading rifles are needle guns.')
Good points, but another issue is that many people, including almost all journalists, have so little understanding of military equipment and operations that they often make amazingly silly mistakes (when is a tank, not a tank? When it is an up armored HMMWV).
A few moments ago, I listened to a lecture in which Margaret MacMillan, an historian of the 'long nineteenth century', who sports more degrees than the proverbial thermometer, confessed to her inability to distinguish between a 'needle gun' and an 'breech-loading rifle'. ('It's like bugs and insects, Professor. All needle guns are breech-loading rifles, but not all breech-loading rifles are needle guns.')
“…sports more degrees than the proverbial thermometer… .” Wow, that is a comment I am certainly going to remember 🤣