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'...
War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who’s less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can’t c...
Those highly trained armor specialists were responsible for major repairs, upgrades, and modifications, but in Alicia's opinion, anyone who didn't want to stay hands-on with the standard maintenance a...
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...
The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it,
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.
Jaime Rivera gaped in disbelief as the cadreman took at least five direct hits and didn't go down. And then the trooper who should have been dead was coming straight at him, pistol in one hand and som...
If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.
How do I know where my doubts over their capability stop being genuine love and concern? When my belief that they must be reeducated before they can become my equal stops being a realistic appreciatio...
General Arbatov might be the Cadre's official commanding officer, but Sir Arthur Keita was the Cadre. He'd joined it over seventy years before, and he was well past the mandatory retirement age. An as...
And if I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.
All right, Chief Killian. She allowed herself an airy gesture at the forward visual display. That away—full military power.
Victor smiled politely in return, the way someone smiles when they're thanked for having done a minor favor in times past. Held open a door in the rain, lent someone a small amount of money, butchered...
Let's see, we've got the Empress of Manticore, the President of the Republic of Haven, the Protector of Grayson, the chairman of the Beowulf Board of Directors, Queen Berry, and the Andermani emperor'...
Jesus Christ!Foraker's shocked exclamation burned across the bridge like a buzzsaw, and Caslet's mouth fell open as his plot suddenly changed. One instant, his ship was charging into the teeth of two...