All joking about overkill taken in stride, it is possible to bring too much firepower to bear. We'd all love to have Paladins providing fire support, but there are circumstances in which the 155mm is just too robust. While our politicians don't appear to have learned much of anything from Vietnam, the US Army has been a diligent student of its own experience. I won't debate here whether all of the lessons learned were the right ones, but the pattern of operations in Baghdad certainly suggests that the Army was determined not to repeat some of the mistakes from Vietnam. One of them was the use of firepower as a solution to many of life's problems: high explosives can cause as many problems as they solve in a counterinsurgency operation.
Even in Twilight: 2000, it's possible that bigger explosions aren't necessarily better explosions. Beating the crap out of a German town while liberating it leaves the victor with a ruined base of support, lots of bodies, lots of wounded, and lots of animosity. There are occasions on which several 60mm rounds can do the job better than a single 120mm round. Of course, there are also occasions on which nothing less than a 120mm round will do.
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