Eli5: What made Napalm so useful as a weapon of war and what were some of the drawbacks of its use in warfare?

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Eli5: What made Napalm so useful as a weapon of war and what were some of the drawbacks of its use in warfare?

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Answer 1

It’s insanely bad stuff. Imagine you get hit with it; you jump in a lake to put the fire/burning out and it still burns. Outlawed for the last 40 years