A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.
Jerry PournelleWe juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
Jerry Pournelle...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.
Jerry Pournelle