My father got a military contract after the 1967 6-day Israeli war.
He had a patent on a winch with the ring gear broached out of the inside of the drum.
The Jews used the winch to retrieve abandoned Arab vehicles.
According to my father, the Arabs not only abandoned thier vehicles, they took off their boots so they could run faster.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps