Both Uses of
belligerent
in
Starship Troopers
- This was the period, of course, after the Bugs had located our home planet, through the Skinnies, and had raided it, destroying Buenos Aires and turning "contact troubles" into all-out war, but before we had built up our forces and before the Skinnies had changed sides and become our co-belligerents and de facto allies.†
Chpt 11belligerents = fighters
- From our co-belligerents the Skinnies we knew that many missing troopers were alive as prisoners
Chpt 13 *
Definition:
hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war