Shin Veatch

“One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

“And,’ Maiegryn continues with her rant as she releases them, ‘if you have to disobey your commanding officer’s orders, at least have the decency to call your mother.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“There were some things even the rules of an absolute human overlord had no right to deny, and one of them was justice”
― Joan D. Vinge, 47 Ronin

“Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?”
― stephenie meyer, New Moon