Prince and Pauper

Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Tue Jan 9 16:45:41 CST 2007


Tore wrote:

> Reminds me of the lovely Zsuzsa from M&D, and her interest in 
> geometric  warfare...

Great connections. Think also of AtD's two-hundred-mile Ballkan line of
(potential) annihilation: for the WWI Western Front, at least, the wheeling
of maneuver forces froze into the deadliness of No Man's Land. Even the
best-drilled troops were helpless against a geometric interdiction there, a
line of annihilation from Flanders to Switzerland, with puffs of phosgene
gas and other goodies.

The annihilating *light* hinted in AtD, well... that would need a few
decades more. Not as if P hasn't been dropping clues about that for a long
time.





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