Re: Printed works of future combat

>At 12:49 8/13/98, Thomas Barclay wrote:
>>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.
>
>You're probably thinking of the Fifth Foreign Legion series by Andrew
Keith
>and William H. Keith Jr.: March or Die, Honor and Fidelity and a third
one
>which escapes memory. Good hard-SF tactical grunt combat.

Third FFL book is Cohort of the Damned, not to be confused with Dietz's
Legion of the Damned (see below).
>
>There was another series about the future of the foreign legion (Legion
of
>the Damned was one of the titles) whose author I forget. This series
was a
>bit more on the space-opera side, but was interesting in that most of
the
>legion (especially those sentenced to join because of capital crimes)
were
>cyborged into various types of killing machines.
>
[snip]

Jon (GZG)