Captain Kirk's Disobedience to the Army

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There's a character in the book called Richard Sharpe who is very Captain Kirk-like. He doesn't not believe in the army, he just thinks some of the rules are stupid and shouldn't listen to them. And there's like a whole interlude after the first big battle sequence where he basically is like, yo, these guys are going to get disciplined and they don't want to. So I need to at least sort of facilitate it.

Bring on the battalion of Dad Books! Cornwell started writing the Richard Sharpe novels because he wanted something like Horatio Hornblower on land. Well, we haven't read any Hornblower yet but we can attest that this book sure is about a British rifleman fighting in the army during the Napoleonic Wars!

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