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** The US military phased out pack animals in the 1950s, only to be reminded that wheels are poorly suited to the rugged terrain found in areas of Afghanistan. In 2004, the US Army printed ''Special Forces Use of Pack Animals'', which "captures some of the expertise and techniques that have been lost...over the last 50 years."
*** The same happened back in WWII. Cavalry was among the Soviet troops who caused most troubles to Germans on the early stage after control and logistics were lost. Because in short term they needed only machinegun/rifle ammo and food for men, and horses are good for bad terrain. In comparison, Soviet [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015224533/http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/tanks-heavy/kv-2.asp heavy tanks] were by far the most powerful of their time, but without directions and supply got reduced to light fortifications lonely holding a tiny spot until out of shells—at best.
**In general anything intended to be used in a war or any other sort of fight cannot be analyzed without knowing the opposition. and conditions.
* Guitarists still prefer tube amplifiers over transistor amplifiers because of the warmer and more organic output of the tube amp.
* The vinyl LP record is still preferred over compact disks and other binary musical formats by connoisseurs.
* Many photographers never use the full automatic mode when transitioning from film camera to digital. They achieve better results on manual mode - they are used to it and can use it to obtain best results. TheyFull alsoautomatics favorusually theirare extantset oldto lenses,"discernible in most possible cases" which usuallyby aredefinition metalis andsuboptimal glassfor specific cases, overso even an operator with small experience can do better. A photographer considers ''the specific scene'' and ''the desired impression'' to decide what parameter is more modernimportant all-plastic(shutter lensestime depends on how fast the objects move, whichand whether you ''want'' some motion blur, etc), and what deviations from the average are desirable or undesirable (sometimes it's fine to allow light parts be a bit lighter, and sometimes dark parts a bit darker) — that's part of why it's considered an art. People who worked with a film camera tend to at least understand what aperture, shutter and focal depth ''do'', even if the sensor is not the same. While people who come from cellphone cams / webcams and other "soapboxes" with pinprick aperture didn't see the differences obvious with any halfway good lenses and usually need a lot of experiments to but"feel" lessthe robustoptics.
** They also favor their extant old lenses, which usually are metal and glass, over more modern all-plastic lenses, which are lighter and cheaper but less robust.
** Full automatics usually are set to "discernible in most possible cases" which by definition is suboptimal for specific cases, so even an operator with small experience can do better. People who worked with a film camera tend to at least understand what aperture, shutter and focal depth ''do'', even if the sensor is not the same. While people who come from cellphone cams / webcams and other "soapboxes" with pinprick aperture didn't see the differences obvious with any halfway good lenses and usually need a lot of experiments to "feel" the optics.
* "Lindy effect" is a simple heuristic for how long you can expect something to stay around in future: just as long as it already was around (obviously, it applies to phenomena that are subject to selection, like species or art forms, not perishable ones like cakes and people, or purely random like unstable isotope atoms).
 
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