"Steele the Technocrat." The General shook his head sadly. "He wants smaller, more efficient forces and sees high-tech, low-body-count forces as the solution. He’s forgetting the people again. Typical Technocrat. At least President Adams, Democrat though he was, understood that we need men and women in the services. Thank God Steele has been too indecisive to cancel Adams’s recruitment policies and reduce the manpower establishment. I suppose he thinks keeping the slots open makes him look like a humanitarian." Tom had heard that manpower cuts were coming, but with the General getting up a head of steam, this wasn’t the time to mention it. "General, you’ve got more experience than I do with how an autocratic army lives in a democratic state. Do you think people would be taking matters any better if Steele had been elected directly?"