I started to enumerate all the silly contradictions and childish cliches, but I gave up.

The "shadow of defeat"? In April 1942 he only had to look out his window to see that.

To talk about Britishicon weapons as "muddled through" is laughable; this is the country that fielded the Chauchat in WWI because Col. Lewis had a feud with someone in the army hierarchy. The AEF suffered massive casualties in WWI simply because they insisted on "muddling through" rather than learning from their recent allies. Then Gen. Pershing took pains to remove the evidence from the archives!

The SMLE "bulky and gadgety-looking"? This clown must never have seen the sights of a Springfield or taken the action apart.

To field that pathetic little scope that was fitted to the Springfield, or that ridiculous Unertl? Hardly evidence of "careful planning".

We could go on to things like the Sherman tank, but time does not permit!