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October 23rd, 2006  
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Originally Posted by 5.56X45mm
The U.S. 27th Infantry Regiment during Korea once took out a Chinese Machine gun position with bayonets.
The koreawar was in the '50s and the vietnamwar was short time after. Both wars were in jungle terrain and such terrain a weapon with a bayonet have in mind, but a war like this wars won't be come back, not for modern armys like the USA, GB, France, etc.
War since 1990 in fact would be won by air force to 60 %, 20% by special forces and the last 20% are troops.
Take a look on Desert Storm, the major offensive of ground troops take three days and it was over.

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