Re: [HIST??] Culture shock

You missed a big assumption.  John assumes that all factions of
the IF behave in the same manner.  If one faction sees a possible
advantage in having troops trained by "ex"-NAC military and the
NAC sees a possible threat to the ruling elite we could end up
with a well trained force.  What's the old cliche?  "Politics
make for strange bedfellows."

Roger Books

On 24-Jun-02 at 19:49, Laserlight (laserlight@quixnet.net) wrote:
>   If I were an army writer, I'd have toned it down a bit, myself--I'd
> rather have my boys on the battlefield find out I was a pessimist, not
> an optimist.	John also makes the assumption that a culture which has
> X characteristics NOW also has those same characteristics THEN (not
> just the Arabs, also the Americans, Canadians, etc).	Okay, it's
> superficially plausible--but that doesn't make it correct.  Certainly
> other cultures have changed substantially in 150 years time.
> 
> John replied:
> > The IF is hostile to all major powers.  All of 'em.
> 
> Not true.  The IF is not hostile to the FSE.	And they don't
> necessarily let animosity interfere with business--I don't have the
> timeline handy but I'm sure there have been periods in which the IF
> didn't *like* the NAC, NSL and/or ESU but might have gotten training
> from them.