David Drake
David Drake
David Drakeis an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the major authors of the military science fiction genre...
use answers problem
The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.
soul boring ifs
Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…
determination numbers people
The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.
decision worthy historian
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.