ISENBERG INSTITUTE OF STRATEGIC SATIRE Comparative Institutional Analysis Series Fictional Idealization and Historical Precedent in the Institutional Design of Mercenary Service, from the Condottieri to the Contemporary Private Military and Security…
Gordon R. Dickson's Dorsai novels (beginning with Dorsai! in 1959 and continuing across the Childe Cycle) construct a planetary society whose sole exportable good is elite soldiering, organized around a rigorously contractual ethic of service. This dossier argues that the…
