There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because the nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specific point at a designated time--we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a peticular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.
Trooper Rico, Mobile Infantry
(Robert A. Heinlein, STARSHIP TROOPERS)
