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Was reading an intresting article on naval combat with the advent of faster anti ship wepons and the liability of sailors inactivity to fire back. The author referenced this fact about ww2. If this is acurate what would have happened if any country involved in the war was able to get this number up to 70% ?

"S.L.A. Marshall, the eminent Army historian, asserted in his landmark 1947 study Men Against Fire that, even in the best infantry companies, only 25 percent of soldiers actually fired their weapons in combat. The statistic seems bizarre and counterintuitive, but Marshall provides solid evidence from World War II. Even in some of the grimmest, close-quarters combat in the Pacific islands and during the landings at Normandy, only an average of 15 percent of infantrymen actually fired their weapons. The underlying reasons most soldiers did not engage, according to Marshall, were a lack of a definite targets, worries about fratricide, unwillingness to reveal their position, and the fog of war."

RED SKY IN MORNING: NAVAL COMBAT AT THE DAWN OF HYPERSONICS
RYAN HILGER
FEBRUARY 28, 2019

https://warontherocks.com/2019/02/red-sky-in-morning-naval-combat-at-the-dawn-of-hypersonics/
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