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30. “Boutelle Quits Posts,” New York Times, January 22, 1959, p. 48. See also A. R. Hammer, “New Chief Expected Next Week for Fairchild Engine & Airplane,” New York Times, February 2, 1961, p. 37.
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31. McNaugher, M16 Controversies, p. 67.
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32. On the sale details, Stevens and Ezell, Black Rifle, p. 81; “Historical Review of ArmaLite”; McElrath, “Golden Days.”
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33. E. Grant, The Colt Legacy: The Colt Armory in Hartford, 1855–1980 (Providence, R.I.: Mowbray, 1982), p. 172.
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34. “Colt’s New Rifle,” Time, November 22, 1963. For more details on the “boardroom battles,” see “Change at Fairbanks Whitney,” Time, October 26, 1962, and Grant, Colt Legacy, pp. 174–79.
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35. McNaugher, M16 Controversies, pp. 76–77, 106n6; Stevens and Ezell, Black Rifle, p. 82 (MacDonald’s “small-statured” comment, in his testimony, is on p. 83); Hallahan, Misfire, pp. 464–66; L. Kahaner, AK-47: The Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), p. 46. See W. C. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1976), p. 158, for his remark about the M1. On arms exports offsetting the cost of overseas forces, see J. A. Huston, “The Military-Industrial Complex,” in J. E. Jessup and L. B. Ketz, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Military (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994), pp. 3:1695–96.
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36. On LeMay, see T. M. Coffey, Iron Eagle: The Turbulent Life of General Curtis LeMay (New York: Crown Publishers, 1986); W. J. Boyne, “LeMay,” Air Force Magazine 81, no. 3 (March 1998).
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37. Quoted in Hallahan, Misfire, p. 466.
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38. On this celebration of the nation’s birthday, see Kahaner, AK-47, p. 44; Stevens and Ezell, Black Rifle, p. 87; Hallahan, Misfire, p. 467; McNaugher, M16 Controversies, p. 78 (on Boutelle and LeMay’s relationship, see p. 106n10).
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39. On Strichman, see “Change at Fairbanks Whitney,” Time, and the obituary (he died, aged seventy-two, of cancer) in New York Times, April 26, 1989.
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40. Quoted in Ezell, Lightweight Rifle, p. 313.
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41. A. J. Glass, “The M14: Best Army Rifle—or a ‘Major Ordnance Blunder,’” New York Herald Tribune, June 26, 1961.
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42. McNaugher, M16 Controversies, pp. 79–80; Hallahan, Misfire, p. 470.
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43. McNaugher, M16 Controversies, p. 83. Useful summaries of AGILE can be found in W. Beecher, “Unconventional Wars Spur U.S. to Develop Some Unusual Devices,” March 24, 1964, p. 1; and “Weapons Sought for Remote Wars,” New York Times, January 27, 1964, p. 2.
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44. The report is printed in full in Stevens and Ezell, Black Rifle, pp. 101–6.
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45. Quoted ibid., p. 107.
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46. This section is based on Table 14, “Comparative Performance Date for the 7.62mm NATO (.30) and 5.56mm (.223) Cartridges,” in Ezell, Lightweight Rifle, pp. 315–18; McNaugher, M16 Controversies, pp. 84, esp. 108–9n34. Lastly, though I don’t entirely agree with his conclusions, the article by Major Anthony Milavic, “The Last ‘Big Lie’ of Vietnam Kills U.S. Soldiers in Iraq,” at www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/the_last_big _lie_of_vietnam_ki.htm, August 24, 2004, contains important extracts from the ARPA report and is a valuable resource in its own right. J. Fallows, “M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story,” Atlantic, June 1981, p. 60, quotes Stoner on the instability issue: “There is the advantage that a small or light bullet has over a heavy one when it comes to wound ballistics . . . What it amounts to is the fact that bullets are stabilized to fly through the air, and not through water, or a body, which is approximately the same density as the water. And they are stable as long as they are in the air. When they hit something, they imediately go unstable . . . If you