Teres

- Axis's "brilliant leadership" gets proven to be a lie so many times it's insane. He constantly makes the worst decisions possible and at one point even personally gets a whole bunch of his men killed!

I think I have a piece of concrete in my backyard that would make a better leader than him. It's never killed anyone or made any bad decisions. ...honestly, I would probably trust the piece of concrete before I would trust Axis.

- Really, I don't know why he even needed to be a general in the first place, or why the AW needed to exist.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it was so everyone can fawn over how awesome he is as a general, and so that he has (in Douglass's opinion) a 'legitimate' reason for his arrogant attitude.

- And of course there's the obvious fact that Axis does not have the temperament to be a leader of any kind.[...]

Good. Lord. Forget being fired from his position, he ought to be locked up, if not executed outright! How can anyone put their trust in him? If Douglass wrote a more realistic army, I have a feeling that Axis wouldn't have very many soldiers left to command, because all the rest would have deserted him!

- That struck me too. Axis already goes in for domestic abuse, rape and cruelty to children, so cruelty to animals fits right in.

...why is he a protagonist again? In any other story, he would be a villain of the highest, most despicable caliber.

- It still infuriates me that people think this trilogy is "feminist" when it's full of shit like this and worse. WAY worse.

That could only be true if those people have absolutely no idea what the word 'feminist' means.