"The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it "The Bug War." Everything up to then and still later were just incidents, patrols or police actions. However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an incident as you are if you buy it in a declared war." Welcome to …
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…we may actually be wrong, it is amazing what we might find. Heinlein is very straight forward in his beliefs and it is true that he feels the military is a valuable asset of our society, but this does not undermine the value of his statements. I can only hope that his prophecies of our democratic society collapsing because of its own blind beliefs will refrain from coming about. We are our own worst enemy.