The perfect weapon that arrives late loses to the sufficient one that arrives today.

The perfect strategy prepared for years loses to the one that already works.

The perfect solution unbuilt loses to the ordinary one in the field.

The Germans sought perfection.

The Americans sought results.

The war showed who was right.

And the copper liner, simple, stamped like a tin can, became the symbol of pragmatism, defeating perfectionism.

When the engineers stood at Kumer’sdorf over the disassembled bazooka, they did not marvel at its penetration.

They could not believe that simplicity had toppled everything they believed in.

And it was simplicity that prevailed.

 

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