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[Rupert Boleyn]

Onno Meyer wrote:
> Tricky. Heinlein glibly claimed that MI were the answer
> to all tasks short of carpet-bombing, and as the writer 
> of a novel he didn't have to put that to the test. There
> have been long and heated debates on this list ...
>
>   
I tend to see that as the main character's opinion. In the novel itself 
the various weaknesses of the suits become very obvious (and he seems to 
be cheerfully comparing the suits to obsolete tanks of previous periods, 
and not with what could be built with contemporary technology). I'm sure 
Heinlein was aware of this - Rico spouts quite a lot of opinion that 
doesn't always make a great deal of sense, and he doesn't seem 
especially intelligent. Certainly he isn't very introspective.