and a dim, wide-eyed, ignorant oaf who balks at the thought with, "FRANKLY, I FIND THE IDEA OF A BUG THAT THINKS OFFENSIVE!" Between him and the pathetic showing the Mobile Infantry made on Klendathu, one is left wondering if the Bug hivemind is pondering whether these monkeys it is fighting can think.
We see a debate on a talk show between a level-headed intellectual who appears to be giving thought to the idea that the Bugs are intelligent. The news reels have the most peculiar double standards: they censor a live cow being fed to a captive Arachnid, but the gory aftermath of an Arachnid attack on a Mormon colony is shown in detail. Seeing Johnny's old friend act so smug about how easy the fight's gonna be with knowledge of that "glaring disadvantage" is just icing on the cake. No amount of marksmanship training will help most people hit a moving target that small in a live battle, and about the only sound tactic would seem to be lobbing/launching grenades at its underbelly and hoping some shrapnel takes it out.which is kind of hard when your army has no stepping stone between "assault rifle" and "portable nuke". However, it's similarly absurd that the propaganda short indicates that knowing about that weak spot will do anything to help anyone, since it's a thumb sized node on a fast-moving creature twice the size of a cow. While it's excusable during the massed assaults by the bugs where it can be difficult to keep calm and fire straight, the situations where it's a squad versus a single bug, and the bug is clearly winning, the absolute incompetence of "ivy-league hopeful" Rico and his even less-intelligent comrades is on full display. Once this bit is seen, the viewer is given scene after scene after scene, throughout the entire movie, of troopers failing to heed this one piece of advice, and each bug taking one clip or more of ammo to be put down. Fairly early on, a propaganda bit shows that, if the soldiers shoot a specific point on the bug torso, it will drop the bug instantly. 
* The camera pans back to show that he has no legs below the knees*
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