I was digging around the old desk today and came across this drawing I made last fall. The day in which I drew it was a strange day, being as it was that I could not stop thinking about how interesting it would be if soldiers carried bullet proof shields in one hand and guns in the other.
You might say, "But this is scandalous! I always see police carrying shields when I'm rioting!" This is true. Every police force in the world uses clear, plastic shields to keep deviants at bay, but these are more designed to protect from cabbages and rocks than bullets.
"But you are ridiculous! Modern ballistic shields are both bullet proof and light." That is true. And these have been used very extensively in law enforcement to give a little protection against handguns and shotguns. But they are pretty useless in today's modern battlefield of armor-piercing ammunition, rocket propelled grenades and high explosives.
However, if the discovery of some fictitious, abundant, light, absolutely bullet-proof metal had preceded the modern flood of complex, deadly weaponry, I'm absolutely convinced that we would have seen Napoleon's armies maneuvering around the open fields with Romanesque shield tactics.
More importantly, it would look amazing on film.
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