The only proper course of action regarding humanity was to leave it alone, and, if possible, isolate it. Just as one would handle any other sophont t… - Charles E. Gannon

We need no technological assistance. Hkh'Rkh capabilities and engineering is unsurpassed.
Yaargraukh managed to keep his tongue from writing out in a spasm of grim hilarity. "I have heard others say the same thing."
"And your response to them?"
"That their empty rhetoric is delusional lunacy spoken as truth.

That’s one thing I’ve noticed about war, Richard: there’s always more than enough irony to go around.

You’re the military analyst, writer, historian: you, above all people, should know that those who decline to take a hand in controlling events surrender the ability to influence them.