The initial reports coming back from his task forces indicated Buccaneer was succeeding as a military strategy. Unfortunately, the ultimate object of any military strategy was to achieve political ends, and that was looking rather more…problematical. He’d warned his civilian masters that might be the case, although, as Abruzzi’s attitude suggested, they’d ignored that warning the same way they’d ignored everything else that might have saved them—and the Solarian League—from its current rolling disaster.
