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** The Solarian League Navy, particularly Battle Fleet, has an overabundance of flag officers. Since no one expects that anyone could pose a credible threat to them, organizational efficiency (or ''any'' type efficiency, really) isn't a priority, and promotions are liberally handed out for purely political reasons. Frontier Fleet doesn't have this as bad, since they actually have to fight on occasion. [[spoiler:When Battle Fleet eventually does have to fight a major war, and they find out just how out of date their technology is, all those centuries of rampant cronyism become yet another nail in their coffin.]]

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Q-ship crew Honor gets stuck with in ''Honor Among Enemies.''
* TheRashomon: Latest novels (until the ''Mission of Honor'' started the clock again), which basically just go back and forth in the time period around the Battle Of Manticore. The earliest of them (in the internal chronology, that is), ''Crown of Slaves'', is set in 1919 p.d., while ''Torch of Freedom'' ends in the spring of 1922, and ''At All Costs'' and ''Mission of Honor'' overlap both of these books. Weber and Flint needed to introduce a lot of people and concepts in their greatly expanded universe, true, but that's no less frustrating to the reader, who just gets to read about the same events again and again. Especially given the Weber's habit to lapse into chapter-long {{infodump}}s and {{As You Know}}s.

** President Eloise Pritchart is sufficiently annoyed by [[spoiler:Mesan scheming]] to [[spoiler:turn up in Manticoran space, and propose an impromptu summit conference with Queen Elizabeth, saying simply, "I think we need to talk." And end by proposing -- not just a peace settlement -- but a ''military alliance'' against the Solarians and Mesans.]] ''And it worked.'' Even Queen Elizabeth is both impressed and astounded.
** In ''Field of Dishonor'', [[spoiler:after Paul Tankersly is murdered by Pavel Young by proxy, Tomas Ramirez and Alistair [=McKeon=] team up, acting on information from Admiral Sarnow, go after Denver Summervale who was hired to engineer a duel to find out who hired him. They set up a training exercise on Gryphon which just so happens to be where he's hiding and happen to stumble across his manor and take out everyone inside as the result of a ''navigation error'' and ''terrible misunderstanding'' with the manor residents.]]

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Weber attempts to write Hard Science fiction, while using several coincidences of AppliedPhlebotinum to justify combat being [[SpaceIsAnOcean explicitly naval in nature]]. It generally lands a solid 3, possibly a 4 depending on how technical you want to be.

* RealityEnsues: In ''On Basilisk Station'' the Bronze Age-tech Medusans manage to brutally kill some Manticorans by swarming them. Then, the Manties bring out the heavy weapons and air support. The aliens die. And die. And die some more.

* NotSoDifferent: Even during the worst periods of the Committee of Public Safety's reign, the Peoples' Republic of Haven [[EvenEvilHasStandards shared Manticore's opinion of pirates and slavers]]. [[spoiler: This is one of the main reasons the Mesans have been prodding both sides in their decades-long war.]]

** Revealing that she's genetically modified in book 7, also has this feel to it; explainif that she can indulge her sweet tooth because she has an super humanly high metabolism rather than just exercised a lot as was previous mentioned; this one is PlayedForDrama though as it has severe consequences later in the book. It also explains her naturally good ship handling abillities.

* PunctualityIsForPeasants: In ''Cauldron of Ghosts'', a Mesan security agent notes that his current boss is this type -- routinely telling the agent to be in the boss' office at a given time, then showing up late to show the agent who's in charge. (This turns into one of the reasons the Mesan higher-ups decide to "cull" said boss instead of evacuating him during Operation Houdini.)

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Wormholes in the Honorverse are defined as ruptures between n-space and {{Hyperspace}}, which usually lie within a few light-hours of a star. Ships with Warshawski sails can use them to move instantaneously between two fixed points, making them economically and strategically valuable. The Manticore Wormhole Junction has a whopping ''seven'' wormholes in close proximity, and the shipping tariffs it brings in are a major contributor to the SKM's affluence. Of note is that wormholes have a mass limit, and will temporarily destabilize after a transit for a period exponentially proportional to the transit mass[[note]]For the Junction, this ranges from 10 seconds for small ships, to 2 minutes for large ships, to 17 ''hours'' for a max-size fleet[[/note]]. This means that attempting to use a wormhole to invade a star system is a risky proposal: the maximum tonnage of the invading fleet is limited, and will destabilize the wormhole for so long as to preclude any possibility of reinforcement or retreat.

* RetCon: [[http://honorverse.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Resizing The Great Resizing]], a mass revising of the ship sizes presented in the Honorverse which became necessary because WritersCannotDoMath.

* OutOfFocus: Honor herself past ''Mission of Honor'': she's the highest-ranking officer in the Manticoran military and is not able to get into the fights she used to be able to do. The story GoingCosmic and revealing a ManBehindTheMan BiggerBad did not help, as it loops in a large number of other characters, nations and planets. It gets to the point that the Wikipedia summary of the final book (as read on 9 November 2020) ''does not even mention Honor'' until its last paragraph.

* OutOfFocus: Honor herself past ''Mission of Honor'' as she is now the strategic overview due to her high rank, and not able to get into the fights she used to be able to do.

** In ''Ashes of Victory''/"Nightfall" a snatch of conversation between Oscar St. Just and Esther [=McQueen's=] minder Erasmus Fontein, heard out of context by an informant, [[spoiler:causes Esther [=McQueen=] to kick off her coup attempt before she is fully prepared—needlessly, as it turned out, as Oscar St. Just was only asking Fontein to ''fabricate evidence'' against [=McQueen=], not to move against her as the informant assumed. In the end, this case of poor communication ends up killing ''1.3 million people''.]]
** In ''War of Honor'', a recursive example: Haven Secretary of State Arnold Giancola is fooled by President Eloise Pritchart's extremely-controlled facade into misjudging the amount of anger hiding beneath it. (He forgot that not only was she one of the only surviving members of a more doctrinaire pre-Committee revolutionary group, she was also one of few People's Commissioners good enough at hiding what she really felt to survive the Committee's reign of terror while [[spoiler:''being in a romantic relationship with the admiral she was supposed to ride herd on'']].) As a result, [[spoiler:when he changes key points in diplomatic communiques to ratchet up tensions between Haven and Manticore so that he then can make himself look good by smoothing the tensions away, Giancola inadvertently goes too far and provokes Pritchart to announce a return to war]].

** To a lesser extent, the Star Kingdom of Manticore to the Talbott Cluster in the Saganami Island series. The oligarchs running the local political machines on many of the region's worlds believe that the Star Kingdom operates like they do, as they simply cannot imagine there being any "true" constitutional monarchies that aren't as corrupt as their own systems are. Thus, they believe that a lot of the diplomatic correspondences and military actions the Star Kingdom enacts are bluffs and blunders, and not legitimate.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: There seems to be too much of a reliance on automated spell-checking without enough proofreading, leading to errors like "commander" and "commodore" being confused. Still, it is not a serious issue and stems from David Weber's hands being so crippled (see [[http://www.davidweber.net/faqs/index/series:0 here[[note]]Very shortly, he fell and broke his wrist in ''57'' places, and along with lots of surgery and rod/plate implants, he got arthritis[[/note]]]]) that the entire series is transcribed by software with some questionable ability.