re: #274 Kragar

Mobile infantry in the book: “we’ll insert via orbital torpedo barrage, while nuking enemy targets, while our 30 man unit lays waste to an area 30 miles wide and 500 miles long before we make a precision extraction via shuttle and escape before the enemy can react.”

Mobile Infantry in the movie: “Why do we need anything resembling infantry tactics when we can just gagglefuck along in a disorganized mob towards the enemy?”

One thing from the book that you couldn’t reproduce in the movie: It’s 1959, remember—the reader’s going along with a mild frisson of “How enlightened am I?” following the adventures of a hero with a Spanish name. Then on literally the last page, we learn he’s a Filipino.