Lester Tourville stared at his plot in horror as the impeller signatures of sixty-eight Republican ships of the wall abruptly vanished. Seventeen continued to burn on the display for another handful o...
It’s amazing what deadly weapons compassion and morality are when they’re deployed in the service of diplomacy.
It wasn’t his fault he’d been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer set of imperatives.
I'll bring the rest through as quickly as I can, Honor promised after the inevitable delay.And I'll try to make sure there's still a Star Kingdom when you do, Kuzak replied.
Constitutional irregularities, is it? Interesting concept — given that Torch hasn't yet adopted a formal constitution.Yup. He listed that as Irregularity Number One.
And you were of the opinion propaganda has to make sense to be effective?
And now the same people who'd already infuriated Grayson public opinion had falsely and publicly attacked their greatest planetary hero, who was also the second ranking officer of their navy, the Prot...
There was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.
Sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. At
One certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.
Liberty was a tree which had to be watered occasionally with the blood of patriots?
Grimace.
You're kidding me! Vice Admiral Horth told her com screen.The hell I am. There was just over a one-second transmission delay each way between Soissons Orbit One and Jefferson Field, and Admiral Marat'...
They never saw the other side of the coin, the responsibility to keep going because your people needed you to and the agony of knowing misjudgment or carelessness could kill far more than just yoursel...
There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She wasn't worried that they were going to think she didn't trust them to get it right, but she couldn't te...
The wise monarch listens to his generals in matters of war, to his ministers in matters of state, and to his people in matters of morality. Ha!
The other side’s version, Kolokoltsov thought. Even here, he’s not willing to call it the truth. Whoever said truth is the first casualty of war damned well knew what he was talking about!
The list went on and on, and there'd been a time when she'd craved those medals, those confirmations of achievement and ability. She was proud of them even now, but they were no longer the stuff of dr...
That thought let her banish the grin at last, because if independent command was what every good officer craved, a captain all alone in the big dark had no one to appeal to. No one to take the credit...
Nuts didn't need religion to make them nuts, Allison had long since decided, but it did seem to give them a certain added sense of commitment to whatever goals their nutdom decided to embrace.