The Malazan military’s vaunted ability to adapt to whatever

style of warfare the opposition offered was in fact superficial.

Behind the illusion of malleability there remained a hard

certainty in the supremacy of the Imperial way. Contributing

to that illusion of flexibility was the sheer resiliency of the

Malazan military structure, and a foundation bolstered by

profound knowledge, and insightful analysis, of disparate and

numerous styles of warfare.

Abstract (Part XXVII, Book VII, Vol. IX)

on Temul’s thirteen-page treatise, ‘Malazan Warfare’

Enet Obar (the Lifeless)

(MoI, UK Trade, p.328)