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

[MB]

Ah, Dorsai! Love those stories, don't have them all, can't find them.
It's a problem, loving old SF.

Maybe I'll get out what I have and re-read it. :)

Regards,
MB

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, David Lubkin wrote:

> 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.
>
>