It Is A Principle Of Diplomacy That

The U.s. Military Is Us. There Is No Truer Representation Of A Country Than The People That It Sends Into The Field To Fight For It. The People Who Wear Our Uniform And Carry Our Rifles Into Combat Are Our Kids, And Our Job Is To Support Them, Because They're Protecting Us.

Two Questions Form The Foundation Of All Novels: "what If?" And "what Next?" (a Third Question, "what Now?", Is One The Author Asks Himself Every 10 Minutes Or So; But It's More A Cry Than A Question.) Every Novel Begins With The Speculative Question, What If "x" Happened? That's How You Start.

Learn To Write The Same Way You Learn To Play Golf. You Do It And Keep Doing It Until You Get It Right.

In The Soviet Union It Was Illegal To Take A Photograph Of A Train Station. Look What Happened To Them. They Tried To Classify Everything.

Well, It's A Communist Country, And The Communists Do Not Reward Personal Initiative...except By Execution.