On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:18 PM, John Groth <aurictech@cox.net> wrote:

As an aside, I've seen Mr. Chalik refer several times to "ToM."

Tom = Tactics of Mistake, one of the Dorsai novels.

The Other Greg seems to have taken the events of this novel very, very seriously indeed. As best as I can determine amongst the blizzard of verbiage, this novels seems to have been one of the fonts of inspiration which informed his [acknowledged freely by his own self as totally without relevant expertise] advice to the USMC.

Richard Aiken

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