Five centuries of use have yielded no adequate defense against the bullet

Evidence

A military historian, commenting on the alleged “historical truth” that there has never yet been a weapon against which man has been unable to devise a counterweapon or a defense, reminds us that “after five centuries of the use of hand arms with fire-propelled missiles … no adequate answer has yet been found for the bullet” (Bernard Brodie, The Absolute Weapon [New York, 1946], pp. 30–31). — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 834

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