However, to my mind, Archer is the beginning of a change in
emphasis.
Archer was clearly disillusioned by his military experience.
(To give
it its due, I have read a bit of this attitude in the
post-trench First
World Warfare era, and there is probably more there of which
I am
unaware.) In the post-Vietnam era, the military experience
seems to
serve two purposes. First, it taught the PI the frontier
skills he
needs to protect society; second, it feeds straight into his
mistrust of
the pllar of that society.
Mark
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