Re: Printed works of future combat

You wrote: 

>As someone pointed out, it is On Death Ground. It's from a Sun Tzu 
>quote which went

In.

>There is a series by an author whose name I forget (but I will look 
>up) on La Legion Etrange in the future (FSE Legion if you wanted to 
>put it roughly into the FT universe). It had two or three books that 
>were all worth looking at. Including a good discussion of 'defeat in 
>detail' as a concept. 

Dietz did some with the Legion which carried the lineage of the French 
Foreign Legion (I know I can't spell "Foreign" in French. . . ), and 
someone else did a Fifth Foreign Legion series.

>was nuked by Arabs (then the Israelis nuked Meca in revenge). It 
>gives an impression of how a poor planet might export mercenaries as 
>a resource in order to trade for things it needs. 

Any of the Dorsai books by Gordy Dickson also discuss this.

>Mercenary by Jerry Pournelle was another interesting book, as was 
>Falkenberg's Legion. 

Prince of Mercenaries was another one.	Then we have the Prince of 
Sparta and Go Tell the Spartans, which is as good a fictional look at 
guerilla warfare in the future on a colony world as I have EVER seen.

John M. Atkinson