They still grumbled, of course, but never within his earshot. Besides, grumbling was the true anthem of every military unit that had ever existed. An… - Charles E. Gannon

Sometimes, thinking just didn’t do any good, didn’t provide any answers. Because for some questions—such as the arbitrariness of life and death during wartime—there weren’t any answers.

The megacorporations have a long history of mining antigovernment organizations for support. They throw a lot of money at them: sometimes directly, sometimes through plausibly deniable proxies.
Hwang screwed up his face. "And do these groups really join forces with the megacorporations? They're far more autocratic than nation-states."
Caine shook his head. "It's not a direct alliance. But the megas aren't really looking for cocombatants against 'the tyranny of nations.' They're just funding grassroots resistance to national authority.

Zkhee’ah Drur the Elder had once observed that while one is yet alive to complain of misfortune, the greatest of all misfortunes has not yet occurred. But this turn of affairs seemed very close to disproving that ancient axiom.