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It is not difficult, in the quiet of the night, or the quiet of the study, to analyze with shrewdness, and compose with deliberation. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 9, Sentence #49)

In theory one presses on against a fleeing enemy, denying him rest, precluding a regrouping and stand. In the field manuals the common lesson is to pursue an advantage to the end, to follow up on the victory, never to stop with an incomplete victory, but the field manuals are written with the care and leisure which might accompany kaissa. They are composed in tents by lamplight, after a day's march or skirmishing, even in winter quarters, or even in exile, or retirement, as is thought to have been the case with the Field Diaries commonly attributed to Carl Commenius of Argentum. It is not difficult, in the quiet of the night, or the quiet of the study, to analyze with shrewdness, and compose with deliberation. But, unfortunately, those in the ranks are seldom familiar with the manuals, and would not care for them if they were, and many cannot read. And officers, familiar with the manuals, sweating in the midst of fighting, exhausted, hoarse, their arm weary, looking about themselves, discover they are now surrounded by disorganized, swarming men, innocent of, or forgetful of, codes, excited, frightened, violent, celebratory, reckless men who have survived battle, men who are not eager to renew war, to face again the blades of a desperate enemy, men who are now exhilarated to find themselves alive, and are intent on loot, without which the pittance of a common fee is negligible. Whatever may be the case the trail upward was crowded with hurrying, jostling, panting men eager to make it through the gate at the summit of the wharf trail before it might be shut against them by their own officers. - (Rebels of Gor)