Rules of Engagement was Re: [extropy-chat] Re: Meta: Too far

[David Lubkin]

In Gordon R. Dickson's Childe Cycle -- which he, as I had feared, died 
before finishing -- the people of a resource-poor planet, Dorsai, hire 
themselves out to the rest of civilization as elite warriors.

In "Brothers," Gordy addresses some of the issues of this thread:

>As professional, free-lance soldiers, under the pattern of the Dorsai 
>contract -- which the Exotic employers honored for all their military 
>employees -- the mercenaries were entitled to know the aim and purpose of 
>any general orders for military action they were given. By a ninety-six 
>per cent vote among the enlisted men concerned, they could refuse to obey 
>the order. In fact, by a hundred per cent vote, they could force their 
>officers to use them in an action they themselves demanded.


-- David Lubkin.