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Shiny, reflective armor? Obviously as something it has to blast through. A laser as powerful as we're supposing would set fire to vegetation, for example.

Was there ever an era in which they had lethal weapons that didn't hurt? But there's a difference between a weapon that horribly murderkills the person you point it at, and one that indiscriminately massacres people all around, on your own side or the other. There's a reason that WW1-style...

A nation is not a hivemind, and different nations are not in a state of total sociopathy towards each other. Not normally, anyway.

White phosphorus, depleted Uranium, Napalm, Agent Orange... The full list of the the US Military's war crimes and atrocities is a long and grisly one, Zach. I believe that yours is one of the few countries that refuse to stop using weapons that are otherwise banned by international treaty...

Which kills people in a horrible, slow, agonizing way like burns from a laser would?

What do you know about those weapons that I don't?

Now what we need there, is medical advances such that there's no longer any such thing as permanent blinding.

Could I have a set in which the visor part is completely opaque, with a screen inside? So what I'd be seeing would be an image from the little cameras on the front, with zero direct light? That way, no matter how bright the laser is, my eyes don't get anything brighter than what the screen...

There's a basic problem with kill-you-in-a-zap laser weapons: using them in on Earth (ie: in the atmosphere) will cause an explosion from the superheated air, the moment the laser is fired.