1. In the Civil War, improved weapons technology enabled sharpshooters to pick off individual soldiers from safely concealed positions.
@YAppelbaum Reading your tweets I thought about Russian sharpshooters during Stalingrad. Hugely celebrated.
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@HeerJeet Indeed. Even some Civil War snipers were celebrated by their own sides. On the whole, though, there's been a real shift. -
@YAppelbaum@HeerJeet 1. Sniper easily fits bifurcated views of war; there's the cold-blooded dastardly sniper image (like Serbs w/Sarajevo)
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