Re: Printed works of future combat

John spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

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

Yes. Sorry. 
 
> >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.

Read both of those. I think the 5ieme Legion Etrange (5th foreign 
legion) was the books I was thinking of. Made references to lots of 
historical events like Camerone. 
 
Tom.