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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Drugs in War
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Date: 22 Dec 89 06:03:24 GMT
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From: att!utzoo!henry
>From: oink!jep (James E. Prior)
>I believe that around the turn of the century, our army had difficulty 
>putting down doped up natives in the Philippines.  

A contributing factor in this was inadequate weaponry.  Colt's .45 automatic
pistol, in particular, came about because of loud complaints that the .38
revolver then issued was ineffective against determined (or drugged) enemies.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu