One man who knows what he is doing can organize a lot of resistance to a military occupation:
"'There are so many stunts to teach you. To name just one, any time you've no other amusement, you can halt work at a war factory for half a day with an anonymous telecall warning that a time bomb's been planted and the staff had better get out.'" (p. 68)
That is Flandry on Ardaziro-occupied Vixen. For an SAS man in Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, read Frederick Forsyth's The Fist Of God. One trick taught by the latter: cycle through the city center carrying loaves filled with rat poison. Occupation troops will confiscate the loaves...
We have been comparing Anderson with Wells, Fleming and now Forsyth. Onward and upward.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Whoa! Now that is grimly ingenious, getting enemy troops to confiscate (i.e., loot) loaves of bread with rat poison in them. Flandry might have done something similar if he had more time to learn about the Ardazirho, including what kinds of food they ate. And whether any human foods would be digestible to the enemy. And thus open to being tampered with.
And false bomb warnings to a war factory might disrupt production longer than a day.
Ad astra! Sean
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