I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.