At 01:45 AM 5/14/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Actually in modern democracies it mostly does go this way. While Vietnam in
>part showed that having politicians try to micromanage battlefield strategy is
>a recipe for disaster, we do have a democratically elected commader in chief
>whose role is to define the overall limits of a war. Remember the example of
>Harry Truman who suspended General MacArthur in the Korean War because
>MacArthur was going off the deep end making proclamations about how he was
>going to win the war including use of nuclear weapons on China which he had no
>authority to make.
>
Well, Yang is the last commader (therefore commander in chief) at that time
(the 13th fleet is the last regular troop), is he not powerful enough to
order to shoot at the enemy flagship ???
Yang's surrender may lead the war to an end. However, it can be forseen
that he put himself in danger and his pension life won't last long. Many
scums may want his life for a step to get power/safety in Empire. In the
DEMOCRACTIC Alliance, do the president at that time get the authority to
shoot Yang?
>
>I suppose this would be a bad time to discuss some elements of later
>developments in the novels (at least as best I understand them...)
>
That's why we got a [spoiler] in the heading...
Regards,
Yang
Zu jeder Zeit, an jeder Ort, bleibt das Tun
der Menschen das gleiche... - LoGH
The 13th Fleet of Free Planet Alliance lives!!!