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{{quote|"''The use of force is '''always''' an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.''"|'''David Drake'''}}

One of the current gods of Military SF, along with [[Co Dominium|Jerry Pournelle]], [[SM Stirling]], and [[David Weber]]--in spite of not writing any military SF anymore. (Unless you count Naval [[Space Opera]].) Known for his explicit and graphic depictions of the effects of warfare on both human bodies and human societies.

One of the current gods of Military SF, along with [[Co Dominium|Jerry Pournelle]], [[S.M. Stirling]], and [[David Weber]]--in spite of not writing any military SF anymore. (Unless you count Naval [[Space Opera]].) Known for his explicit and graphic depictions of the effects of warfare on both human bodies and human societies.

[http://www.david-drake.com/ David Drake] is the author of several sci-fi series, and has a major fantasy series, ''[[The Lord of the Isles]]'' which finished in late 2008 with ''The Gods Return''. Has numerous other works.

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* "Vietnam veteran, former lawyer, former bus driver, and now best-selling author..."

* "Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin."

* "His stint at Duke University Law School was interrupted for two years by the U. S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/11th_ACR~~ 11th Armored Cavalry] in Vietnam and Cambodia."

* "His stint at Duke University Law School was interrupted for two years by the U. S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the [[wikipedia:11th ACR|11th Armored Cavalry]] in Vietnam and Cambodia."

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* ''[[The Lord of the Isles]]'': Heroic fantasy series. Ended in late 2008 with ''The Gods Return'', which was the last of the ''Crown of the Isles'' trilogy. You read that right.

** The last three books in the series are known as ''The Crown of the Isle'' series.

* ''[[Hammers Slammers]]]'' - short stories about futuristic mercenaries under Colonel Alois Hammer. The toughest mercs who ever killed for a dollar. According to [[Word of God]], partly based on the French Foreign Legion in the 1950s, when that service had a large proportion of former SS in its ranks, but also loosely based on the Vietnam-Era [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/11th_ACR~~ 11th Armored Cavalry regiment], with fusion-powered hovercraft "panzers" replacing tanks and smaller combat cars replacing M113 cavalry vehicles.

* ''[[Hammers Slammers]]]'' - short stories about futuristic mercenaries under Colonel Alois Hammer. The toughest mercs who ever killed for a dollar. According to [[Word of God]], partly based on the French Foreign Legion in the 1950s, when that service had a large proportion of former SS in its ranks, but also loosely based on the Vietnam-Era [[wikipedia:11th ACR|11th Armored Cavalry regiment]], with fusion-powered hovercraft "panzers" replacing tanks and smaller combat cars replacing M113 cavalry vehicles.

** Several collections of short stories, ''Hammer's Slammers'', ''At Any Price'', ''The Warrior'', ''The Tank Lords'', ''The Butcher's Bill''

** ''Paying the Piper'' - The Macedonians against the Aetolian League [[In Space]]! Okay, on a planetary surface. (Happy now?)

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* [[The Quiet One]]: Tovera, Adele Mundy's aide. Subverted in that she's a tiny female. So self-effacing she's ignored by police responding to murderous violence at a society garden party in ''Lt. Leary, Commanding'', despite the fact that she's holding a sub-machine gun. Deadlier than her mistress, the [[Badass Bookworm]]. ''Much'' deadlier.

* Occasionally drops [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] to modern culture into his work. A punning one was in ''The Sharp End'' when a ship from the Marvelan Confederacy was known as the ''[[Silver Surfer|Argent Server]]''.

* Occasionally drops [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to modern culture into his work. A punning one was in ''The Sharp End'' when a ship from the Marvelan Confederacy was known as the ''[[Silver Surfer|Argent Server]]''.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Adele Mundy from the [[RCN (Literature)|RCN]], Joachim Steuben from ''[[Hammers Slammers]]'', Hussein ben Mehdi from ''The Forlorn Hope'', Stephen Gregg from ''The Reaches''.... And that's not counting how, in ''The General'' and its follow-ons, Center can augment someone's marksmanship to levels that leave hardened soldiers staring in awe.

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