The Agreement of 1989 ended the war between the Federation of Concerned Spacemen -- the non-government of the Far Edge -- and the U.S. plus selected NATO members. But it almost did more than that--
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I am reminded of the campaign by the German forces under von Lettow-Vorbeck in East Africa, and that the armistice specifically had a clause devoted to the fact that it might take a while to get the word to him to surrender.
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