The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat 07

Author:Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat 07 [07, Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new
Published: 2011-01-15T04:01:33.187000+00:00

Long live Nevenkebia, Land of peace, Land of goodness, land of light. Long live our leaders, Sweet men of mercy.

Long shall we preserve Liberty's right. But dare to attack us- And you got B fight!

There was more like this and I hummed along and was exceedingly happy when the singing ended. A holomap now hung in the air and General Lowender poked it with his finger.

"You will all be issued with maps and detailed orders. We will meet again tomorrow after you have studied them.

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At that time we will go over the plan of attack in detail. But as an overall approach-this is what will happen.

"This division, the 88th, known as the Fighting Green Devils, has the honor of liberating this industrial section of the largest city called by the barbaric name of Bellegarrique. There are mines here and here, warehouses, a rail transportation system and here, ten kilometers away, a dam at the end of this lake that provides electricity for the city. For the benefit of these selfish people we will occupy all of these targets.

We will liberate them from the futility of their rejection of our reasonable needs."

"A question, general," a colonel called out. The general nodded. "What kind of defenses can we expect?

How large is their army? How modern?"

"That is a good question, colonel, and a vital one. We must be prepared for anything, any_ variety of attack, any kind of surprise. Because these people are very subtle, tricky, wily, treacherous. It seems that, well, in all of the contacts made by General Zennor, all of the investigations made by skilled agents, it seems that something very" suspicious was found to be happening. It appears, on the surface that is, that these treacherous people have no army, no defenses-they do not even have a police force!" He waited for the hum of excited voices to die down before he raised his hand for silence.

"Now we all know that this is impossible. A country needs defenses against attack, therefore every country must have an army for defense. The criminal elements in society would plunder and destroy were they not curbed by the police. Now we know that those are realities. We ' know that these treacherous people are hiding their cowardly arm~-Trom us. Therefore we must proceed with armed cautiop, ready for any sneak attack. We must free them from themselves. We owe that to them," I have never in my life heard such a load of old cagal- but it impressed my military mates who cheered wildly at the thought of all the nice mayhem to come.

While I wondered what disastrous future lav in store for

152 Harry Harrison these simple people about to be liberated from their stupid and peaceful ways.

Liberation by destruction was on the wayl We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

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