Empire
Hidden Empire (2009) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the first book of the The Empire duet, following Hidden Empire.
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- Treason only matters when it is committed by trusted men.
- Chapter One: Captain Malich
- When do you first set foot on the ladder to greatness? Or on the slippery slope of treason? Do you know it at the time? Or do you discover it only looking back?
- Chapter Two: Recruitment
- Heroic love is to do what is best for the loved one, disregarding desire, trust, and cost. Unfortunately, it is impossible to know what is best for anyone.
- Chapter Three: New Boy
- In war planning, you must anticipate the actions of the enemy. Be careful lest your preventive measures teach the enemy which of his possible actions you most fear.
- Chapter: Tidal Basin
- War triggers human inventiveness at the most brilliant, because if you don't win your wars, your civilization disappears.
- While war is the ultimate expression of mistrust, it cannot be waged without absolute trust. A soldier trusts his comrades to stand beside him and his commander to lead him wisely, so that he will not be led to a meaningless death. And the commander trusts his subordinates and soldiers to act with wisdom and courage in order to compensate for his own ignorance, stupidity, incompetence, and fear, which all commanders possess in ample measure.
- There are hard wars and easy wars. It's easy to conquer a country whose people hate their own government more than they hate the invaders. It's hard to fight a war when your army knows that back home, their families are rooting for the other side.
