History Literature / CarrerasLegions

''Carrera's Legions'' is also sometimes known as the ''Legion Del Cid'' series, or by the title of its first book, ''A Desert Called Peace'' (used by Wiki/TheOtherWiki).

* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: United Earth, a corrupt and declining [[DirtyCommies socialist dictatorship]] (basically, a jaundiced view of the present-day European Union taken UpToEleven) that can hardly even maintain its star-spanning Peace Fleet anymore. Their enemies are the humans of Terra Nova, and especially the [[UnitedSpaceOfAmerica Federated States of Columbia]], who are as yet less technologically developed, but rapidly advancing.

* TrainingFromHell: The Legion's basic training. Cazador school, required for command track for Officers and [[SergeantRock Centurions]], ramps this UpToEleven.

* {{Dystopia}}: United Earth, a tyrannical order combining the worst features of regressive caste systems and ideologically driven far-left insanity, such as tolerating human sacrifice in the name of religious freedom and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Carrera has a reprisal principle : Play dirty, and you get paid back with a localized atrocity.When the salafist terrorists play dirty, their supporting [[StrawmanPolitical leftists]] get the following misfortunes: strangled, stalked, bombed and shot, and in one occasion, fed FEET FIRST into a wood chipper and broadcasted as a terrorist execution. The Legion's Pashtun allies enslave the surviving families of the Salafists and even sell some of them to Asian sex cartels.

* DrugsAreBad: The third book has Latin American drug lords as its main enemy, beside the United Earth wire-pullers, and invokes the relevant tropes.

--> The Agreement of 2087 divided up the new world into sections roughly comparable to the areas held by the nations and supranationals of Earth, which sections were then often further subdivided. In the division, some got a bit more than they'd had; some got a bit less. Switzerland's colony, Helvetia, had a bit less mountain and a bit more pasture. Japan's Yamato was an island chain of three large islands and numerous small ones, and was somewhat larger in land area—though just as mountainous and almost as resource poor—as the home islands. Canada got a largely frozen wasteland. It also was next to the colony for the United States. As Canadians saw it, this made sense. They knew their Americans and knew that no American-founded colony would stint their war department. Thus, how else could their settlers ultimately get the best defense in the world and have to pay nearly nothing for it.\\

* NotSoDifferent: Over the course of the series, numerous heroes ''and villains'' who like to think of themselves as good and decent men (or at least, not complete monsters) reflect over the fact that they're becoming ever more like their enemies as the war goes on. [[LampShading Lampshaded]] in that ''both'' sides face these moral dilemmas, but more often than not still go ahead with the escalation as it was already long ago that the stakes became too high to back down. From the Afterwords, this seems to be a philosophical problem of great interest to the author.

* SympatheticPOV: The Islamic terrorist leader Mustafa becomes relatively more sympathetic when he becomes a POV character. In his early appearances, he simply comes across as a ranting fanatic, but the sections that are written from his POV show that he is a somewhat sophisticated thinker and social critic, who cares deeply about his Islamic culture and resorts to terror only as a desperate last resort when he feels his society is being hopelessly corrupted by the Cultural Marxism of the Federated States. (Ironically, this makes him almost NotSoDifferent from his antagonist Carrera.) He remains an obvious villain, but becomes one with a coherent ideology and realistically written concerns rather than a slogan-toting strawman.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Carrera eventually makes it his policy to retaliate against the families of terrorists, though this is something he [[KnightInSourArmor resists at first]]. He reluctantly changes his mind after events persuade him that nothing less will deter suicide attackers.

* BadDreams: Carrera is plagued by these, both over the murder of his family and, later, his [[spoiler:nuking a city]] to get the family of the leader of the terrorists he was fighting in the first half of the series.

** The [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop Aesop]] ''is'' that torture works if you're both clever enough and ruthless enough about it.

* BadassArmy: the Legion el Cid, of course.

* TheCaptain: Two of them - Roderigo Fosa, commander of the Legion's fleet, and [[BadassGrandpa Tadeo Kurita]], who serves as his [[TheMentor Mentor]].

* BadassGrandpa:
** Tadeo Kurita, in ''Carnifex'', is over 90 years old, but still as ready to fight for the ''Dos Lindas'', losing his life in the process.
** Mr. Nguyen, who helps the titular characters of ''The Amazon Legion'' in their guerrilla warfare campaign against the invaders, even though he's probably[[note]]his age is never really specified[[/note]] well into his seventies by that point.

In addition, there is a spinoff volume of short stories, penned by authors such as Chris Nuttall and Peter Grant and edited by Kratman: ''Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation''.

''Carrera's Legions'' is also sometimes known as the ''Legion Del Cid'' series, or by the title of its first book (used by Wiki/TheOtherWiki).

Also known as the ''Legion Del Cid'' series, or by the title of its first book (used by Wiki/TheOtherWiki).

''Carrera's Legions'' is a [[MilitaryScienceFiction military]] {{science fiction}} series by Creator/TomKratman, with heavy [[ThrillerLiterature thriller]] elements.

* TookALevelInBadAss: The Islamist leader, Mustafa, who gets a ''lot'' more competent through experience and studies.

''Carrera's Legions'' is a [[MilitaryScienceFiction military]] {{science fiction}} series by Creator/TomKratman.

Also known as the ''Legion Del Cid'' series, or by the title of its first book (used by Wiki/TheOtherWiki)