“We’ve had a lot of those.Hopefully we won’t break our streak,” Custer said.
Any potential invasion would have tohit and destroy Fort MacDonald first, he thought. Invaders couldnotleave a hostile fort behind them. They would have to annihilate it.Which is what the Federation planners knew when they built it. FortMacDonald was the canary in the coal mine. The enemy would have tostrike here first.
But the military has to consider alloptions, Custer reminded himself. He eased back in his chair andwondered if traditional war wisdom was correct. It was soundstrategy. An army did not want to leave an enemy base behind it.Thebase could launch attacks. But wars in space were often foughtdifferently than old-fashioned wars on land or sea. There was avastamount of space between Fort MacDonald and
