The Tactics of Mistake (Childe Cycle #4)

By: Gordon R. Dickson

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Synopsis: Lt. Colonel Cletus Grahame, a superb military tactician, resigns as the head of the Tactics Department at the Western Alliance Military Academy. He proposes to put his theories into practice by arranging a transfer to Kultis, a minor planet in the Outerworlds where the Alliance and Coalition forces are at war. Grahame is assigned to the Alliance Forces and faced with the formidable opposition of Dow DeCastries, Secretary of the Coalition party. Grahame's early attacks are successful and DeCastries' position threatened. The war for these two powerful men becomes a personal battle as they continue to confront each other in the outer reaches of space. Ultimately the lives of Grahame and DeCastries become inconsequential in a final victory seen in the death of an old order and the rebirth of a new.