A properly balanced sword is the most versatile weapon for close quarters ever devised. Pistols and guns are all offense, no defense; close on him fast and a man with a gun can’t shoot, he has to stop you before you reach him. Close on a man carrying a blade and you’ll be spitted like a roast pigeon — unless you have a blade and can use it better than he can.
A sword never jams, never has to be reloaded, is always ready. Its worst shortcoming is that it takes great skill and patient, loving practice to gain that skill; it can’t be taught to raw recruits in weeks, nor even months.
Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road, 1963.
October 31, 2020
QotD: Swords
Comments Off on QotD: Swords
No Comments
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
