Editing Laszlo Hooker

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'''Laszlo Hooker''' was a senior officer in the [[Star League Defense Force]] during the [[Reunification War]].

==History==
Prior to the formation of the [[Star League]], Laszlo Hooker had served as an officer within the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]]; at the beginning of [[Operation UNION HOLD]], the Star League invasion of the [[Outworlds Alliance]] in [[2581]], Hooker was a [[Major General]] in the Star League Defense Force, and was the Commanding Officer of [[V Corps (Star League)|V Corps]], one of two SLDF corps assigned to the conquest of the Star League. <ref name="H:RWp120">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 120, "Haynesville"</ref>

The overall commander of the outworlds Alliance Task Force was [[General]] [[Amos Forlough]], had a low opinion of V Corps and Hooker; V Corps had been deployed within the Capellan Military Region and had expected to be deployed on campaigns against either the [[Taurian Concordat]] or the [[Magistracy of Canopus]], but continuing training problems and heavy activity from anti-Star League renegades within the Capelan region had kept V Corps out of the Taurian campaign.<ref name="H:RWp30">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 30, "V Corps"</ref> This was a distinct contrast to [[II Corps (Star League)|II Corps]], which was both a part of the Task Force and Forlough's previous command.<ref name="H:RWp29">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 29, "II Corps"</ref>

During the first wave of attacks on the Alliance, Hooker's V Corps was assigned to two combat targets as well as to securing two worlds already occupied by SLDF forces. V Corps units took several days longer to jump off for their initial strikes compared to II Corps forces, compounding Forlough's low opinion of Hooker and V Corps.<ref name="H:RWp112">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 112, "Across A Wide Front"</ref>

{{Quote|Kurita’s [[Galedon Regulars]] are inbound and should arrive in about ten days. I don’t like it, but they were the closest forces I have available. Besides, [V Corps Commander Major General] Hooker couldn’t light a fire under his troops with a nuke.|General Amos Forlough, 15 Oct [[2581]]<ref name="H:RWp115">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 115, "The Mad General"</ref>}}

Forlough relegated V Corps to a support role in [[2582]], a role that Hooker was distinctly unhappy with. By this point, one of Hooker's former friends and colleague from their [[Terran Hegemony Armed Forces|HAF]] days was now [[General]] [[Carlos Lee]], Commanding General of the SLDF; when Hooker's complaints to Forlough were ignored, Hooker complained directly to General Lee, who ordered Forlough to put V Corps into action.<ref name="H:RWp119">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 119, "Haynesville"</ref>

Unfortunately for Hooker, the first combat action V Corps saw following Lee's order was the disastrous combat on [[Haynesville]] in February and March [[2582]], which saw an SLDF Royal Brigade surrender to the [[Outworlds Alliance Militia]] and the [[Pitcairn Legion]], giving the Periphery forces both a vital boost to morale and enough top of the line [[Terran Hegemony]] [[BattleMechs]] and technology to field two complete new [[regiment|regiments]].<ref name="H:RWp120">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 120, "Haynesville"</ref>

In the resulting purge of officers enacted by the outraged Forlough, Hooker and his assistant corps commander were both sacked, and Hooker would later be replaced by [[Major General]] [[Victoria Zibler]], the former commander of the [[2nd Royal Brigade (SLDF)|2nd Royal Brigade]].<ref name="H:RWp120"/><ref name="H:RWp122">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 122, "Ki Zoban"</ref>

Having been relieved from duty, Hooker was reassigned by General Lee to the post of Operations Director within the [[SLDF]] High Command - a position that made him responsible for developing the overall tactics and strategies of the entire SLDF.<ref name="H:RWp120"/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]'' 

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