soldiers have to carry their own ammunition. He argued that using carefully aimed semi-automatic fire can be more effective than sweeping enemy positions with random, full-automatic fire. US soldier Paul Howe supports this view in his statement that "volume [of full-automatic fire] in the wrong place is useless". An author argues that the widespread use of automatic rifles such as the M16 by the US Army in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, along with the "... concept of saturation fire and general abandonment of the principles of individual marksmanship and weapon performance" led to military failures; he argues that "...there must be a balance between accuracy and firepower in the general application". References Artillery Machine guns