What Is The Relationship Between Rate of Fire and Military Effectiveness?

Over at his Best Defense blog, Tom Ricks recently posed an interesting question: Is rate of fire no longer a key metric in assessing military effectiveness? Rate of fire doesn’t seem to be important in today’s militaries. I mean, everyone can go “full auto.” Rather, the problem seems to me firing too much and running … Continue reading What Is The Relationship Between Rate of Fire and Military Effectiveness?