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I
just
nodded
.
I
was
beginning
to
realize
that
this
was
not
a
practice
drop
.
Then
I
had
the
shakes
for
a
while
and
then
we
were
down
--
Operation
Bughouse
should
have
been
called
"
Operation
Madhouse
.
"
Everything
went
wrong
.
It
had
been
planned
as
an
all-out
move
to
bring
the
enemy
to
their
knees
,
occupy
their
capital
and
the
key
points
of
their
home
planet
,
and
end
the
war
.
Instead
it
darn
near
lost
the
war
.
I
am
not
criticizing
General
Diennes
.
I
do
n't
know
whether
it
's
true
that
he
demanded
more
troops
and
more
support
and
allowed
himself
to
be
overruled
by
the
Sky
Marshal-in-Chief
--
or
not
.
Nor
was
it
any
of
my
business
.
Furthermore
I
doubt
if
some
of
the
smart
second-guessers
know
all
the
facts
.
What
I
do
know
is
that
the
General
dropped
with
us
and
commanded
us
on
the
ground
and
,
when
the
situation
became
impossible
,
he
personally
led
the
diversionary
attack
that
allowed
quite
a
few
of
us
(
including
me
)
to
be
retrieved
--
and
,
in
so
doing
,
bought
his
farm
.
He
's
radioactive
debris
on
Klendathu
and
it
's
much
too
late
to
court-martial
him
,
so
why
talk
about
it
?
I
do
have
one
comment
to
make
to
any
armchair
strategist
who
has
never
made
a
drop
.
Yes
,
I
agree
that
the
Bugs
'
planet
possibly
could
have
been
plastered
with
H-bombs
until
it
was
surfaced
with
radioactive
glass
.
But
would
that
have
won
the
war
?
The
Bugs
are
not
like
us
.
The
Pseudo-Arachnids
are
n't
even
like
spiders
.
They
are
arthropods
who
happen
to
look
like
a
madman
's
conception
of
a
giant
,
intelligent
spider
,
but
their
organization
,
psychological
and
economic
,
is
more
like
that
of
ants
or
termites
;
they
are
communal
entities
,
the
ultimate
dictatorship
of
the
hive
.
Blasting
the
surface
of
their
planet
would
have
killed
soldiers
and
workers
;
it
would
not
have
killed
the
brain
caste
and
the
queens
--
I
doubt
if
anybody
can
be
certain
that
even
a
direct
hit
with
a
burrowing
H-rocket
would
kill
a
queen
;
we
do
n't
know
how
far
down
they
are
.
Nor
am
I
anxious
to
find
out
;
none
of
the
boys
who
went
down
those
holes
came
up
again
.
So
suppose
we
did
ruin
the
productive
surface
of
Klendathu
?
They
still
would
have
ships
and
colonies
and
other
planets
,
same
as
we
have
,
and
their
HQ
is
still
intact
--
so
unless
they
surrender
,
the
war
is
n't
over
.
We
did
n't
have
nova
bombs
at
that
time
;
we
could
n't
crack
Klendathu
open
.
If
they
absorbed
the
punishment
and
did
n't
surrender
,
the
war
was
still
on
.
If
they
can
surrender
--
