Note the Rifle of choice you peasants

[NorthernRaider]

I noted with a wry grin and a sense of smug I told ya so-ness when the Yanks and Brits invaded Afghanistan and almost immediately sent home for 7.62 mm weapons like the M14 which the yanks had to pull out of mothballs to issue,the M4s and L85 were not up to the job of taking on Taliban up in the nills with 7.62 x 39 Ak 47s