Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. … Sun Tzu, Art of War - Dennis E. Taylor

It’s the law, Marcus.” I smiled at Councilor Brennan. “Which simply sidesteps the statement. Anything can be passed into law. That doesn’t make it right.

No, they won’t get the SCUT plans. The broadcasts were encrypted, as is everything we do; and the Chinese probe wouldn’t know anything about the transmission or file formats, so they wouldn’t be able to separate out encrypted data from transport envelope.

Meanwhile, His Badgerness seemed none the worse for his short career as a football. Stupid badger.