Re: [FT] Crew Professionalism and Ship Quality

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alan E and Carmel J Brain wrote:

> Laserlight wrote:
> 
> > Alan Brain remarked:
> > >Sounds a lot like the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
> >
> > Oh, the Navy is organized.	So is the Army. 
> 
> Interesting Chain of Command though. Do the Radical Feminist
Collective
> insist on only following orders of a Female Admiral? Or when in
command,
> do they sacrifice the expendable males? Does everyone get a vote on
what
> orders to obey?
> 
> Then again, this could all be pure propaganda, misinformation to cause
> an opponent to underestimate them <g>

for politics of all flavours taken to extremes, have a butcher's at 'The
Star Fraction', by Ken McLeod; i can't even begin to catalogue the
incredible mish-mash of political (and anti-political, post-political,
pseudo-political, etc) groups described. it's almost comical. oh, and
it's
a really good hard sf novel, too.

tom