Paradise (Expeditionary Force, #3)

by Craig Alanson

never ask a question for which you don’t want to hear the answer.

whenever theory meets reality, theory loses.”

Tactics, Ferlant considered as he reviewed ship status reports, were useless without the means to implement them.

this. If something is working fine and you screw with it, and then it breaks, you will assume it broke because you screwed with it.