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A starship cavalry commander named Jim Reynolds once proved with practical action that an infantry unit without battlefield doctors or medical ships is virtually no different from suicide.
Regrettably, the United Government didn't seem to understand this principle.
Or perhaps in their eyes, the loss of personnel in war was not much different from the numbers reflecting loss in the stock market.
Even Lu Xiang, after hearing Song Lan's idea, showed a look of astonishment.
"You mean to suggest that we let the Devourers hatch a medical corps for the front line?"
Even she had never considered this possibility.
According to her habitual way of thinking, if they wanted to minimize casualties, they needed to intervene on the battlefield first, eliminating potential enemy forces one by one before they could pose a real threat to the front-line troops.
