Chapter sixteen
In FalkeriumThe efforts of Seg, Inch and Turko after our successes in Vennar — a province no longer — had clearly been rewarded by a rejuvenation of the armies. The work they had put in must have been prodigious. To mount a fresh offensive so soon after the conclusion of a victorious campaign indicated a sustained effort of will and determination.
For those whose understanding of the military extends to picturesque uniforms, or rightly bewailing the casualties, or merely blanket condemnations, the difficulties of putting armies into the field are probably unknown.
Once you have reluctantly decided that fighting is a lesser evil — sometimes it is not, of course — and you must provide for men and women actually to go out and do the fighting, the realities of armies strikes
