Daniel Immerwahr

The bullets are slightly different sizes.

And so one bullet doesn't fit another gun.

The U.S.

bombs do not fit the U.K.

bomb racks.

And that sounds like a small thing, but like try dropping a bomb if the bomb doesn't fit on the bomb rack.

Yeah, you'll drop it, but not in the way you want it to.

So like, think about sending a Jeep.

So that's a thing that happened a lot.

The United States was sending Jeeps all over the world.

And first of all, it's inefficient to ship a Jeep.

So what you want to do is you want to do the IKEA method and you want to ship parts of a Jeep.

But that means you have to have people on the other ends who can put the Jeep together.

Okay, so that's fine.

But then, you know, the Jeep's of course going to break and it's going to break down in all kinds of ways.

So that means you have to have on the other part of the world, people who know how to work with that Jeep and they have all of the parts that allow them to repair the Jeep.

And you need that in dozens of countries all at the same time.

Yeah.

So, I mean, first of all, it's amazing in some ways that in the middle of the war, while the British are literally being bombed.

they're debating about screw thread standards.