标题: 《The Prince》作者： - Jerry Pournelle & S. M. Stirling【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-10-8 11:24 标题: 《The Prince》作者： - Jerry Pournelle & S. M. Stirling【EPUB】 ?? CHAPTER ONE The soldier stands alone. In the time when he must either succeed or encounter failure that will follow him beyond his grave he has only a little time and only two considerations — his mission and what strength he has within himself by which he may accomplish it. Whether he commands a million other men or only the weapon in his own hand the soldier in the moment of decision is of all men most alone- Whatever of harmony he has achieved in his adjustment to the world as he knows it is the source of his strength. If he has adjusted him- self only to chaos it is in this time that he will dissolve and lose himself in its nothingness. —Joseph Maxwell Cameron The Anatomy of Military Merit ????gtlt?? The most important fact of the first half of the Twentieth Century is that the United States and England both speak English. The most important fact of the second half will be that the dominant race in both the United States and the Soviet Union is white. —Herman Kahn I960 lt?? ???? Croftons Encyclopedia of Contemporary History and Social Issues 3rd Edition: CoDominiumi The first attempts by the United States to forge a CoDominium alliance were defeated by the failure of an attempted Communist Party coup and the consequent deposition of Gorbachev. The Soviet Union splintered along national and ethnic lines but when the economic situations of both the former Soviet Union and the United States continued to deteriorate many in both nations looked back on the Cold War with nostalgia. When a new series of military and political coups resurrected the USSR the United States was quick to Join its former enemy in an alliance that established the supremacy of 2 Jerry Poumelle 6- S. M. Stirling the two dominant nations over the rest of the world. The alliance was one of convenience rather than genuine friendship.... The Exodus 2015—2050t In the first generation after the perfection of the Alderson Drive in 2010 more than forty planetary colonies were founded not counting closed- environment mining settlements and refueling stops in systems without Terresteroid planets. While the CoDominium did not encourage governments other than the US or Soviet Union to establish direct settlements corporations or settlement associations clandestinely backed by governments were common. Private colonization ventures were typically either commercial e.g. HwSey q.v. or religious-ethnic in nature see