On 1/23/2018 2:52 PM, David Shaw wrote:
> Which is why I've always had a problem with the Frontier Wars - the
> Fifth in particular. Why would the Zhodani attack a numerically and
> technologically superior foe? Especially without provocation and
> *especially* especially when your one tactical and strategic advantage
> has been nullified by the development of psi-shields?
>
> OK, it makes for a fun and interesting background to run a campaign
> in, but it seems like it's just one more in the list of Dubious Facets
> of Traveller.
>
> Ho-hum. :-)
>
> David Shaw

ISTR that the Zhodani never launched the Frontier Wars in the
expectation that they'd defeat the Imperium and gain broad swaths of
territory, but rather they were more to remind the Imperium that there
was a border and that they shouldn't keep trying to push it into space
already claimed/settled by the Consulate.  Slowly but surely, the Zho
have been expanding into the Spinward Marches, and while the Imperium
gets to claim that they "won", looking at the long game, they really
haven't.

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