11) There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced. - Larry Niven

Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn’t have anything to do with children.

We learn only to ask more questions.

Perhaps the lines of nationalism and factionalism and every other goddamn “ism” in the world had reduced the chances for this weary planet. Or not. Nuclear devices had existed for over a century, and only four of them had ever been used in anger. This could be interpreted as proof of divine intervention, good luck, a sign that the human race was growing up, or ominous portent, depending upon one’s standing in the “half-empty, half-full” school of cocktail-party philosophy.